Booking.com reviews

4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(7,584 total reviews)
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Glenn Fogel

71% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Booking.com has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 7,584 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Booking.com employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Oct 18, 2015

Avoid..

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Pros

The fiends you make from all over the world.

Cons

If you have ambition, avoid working at Booking.com. if you start off in the customer service department, expect to stay there for as long as they need you. If you apply to another position within the company, whether in the same department or the hotel department, you will get a rejected for some made up reasons and you will be denied further applications to the same position for another 6 months. It's a number driven company obsessed with graphs and charts. Assessments are based on objective values which are then determined by your team leader based on what you've done (how do you assess how humble someone is?) You will be assessed and your numbers compared with others in the company and if you are not doing as well then you'll be watched like a hawk. But the turnover in the company is so high that people are always leaving and management does not hire anyone new to help with the workload, instead they expect those still working there to take on extra work. There is no balance between work and personal life, you're always either at work or at home waiting to go to work because the work hours are so erratic and their planning department cannot plan peoples schedules merely putting the same people on the same rotation, so you could be working 2 weekends every month and someone else working none.

1.0
Aug 14, 2020

The worse job I ever had

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Pros

Other, overqualified for this job agents.

Cons

Extremely unprofessional management, especially the lowest level - Team Leaders. Favoritism. Playing non stop on the line with the labor law. Very bad HR dep. where work people who have no idea about German labor law. Unrealistic and permanently changing targets. No transparency at all. Unhealty, cheap food in the cantine. Minimum wage with minumum bonus salary. No chance for grow. Respect to the employees only in theory, in fact an employee is just a number in the system.

3.0
May 30, 2019

Goodbye Berlin

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Pros

great people culture, offsite events

Cons

Operational problems: Different alignments in decision making processes. Lots of grey zones in CS procedures. Procedures are written by people who have no idea about the real workflow. Feedback culture is a disguise, a top-down approach is dominating everywhere. Unclear reading of procedures by the Quality Dep and unfair evaluations of agents. Seniors are not competent and confuse bugs with A/B tests. Outdated internal software. Problems of Berlin offices: The war between the management and the Works Council created a hostile and unhealthy atmosphere in the office. The company lay off over 300 employees in Berlin, giving to some teams a very short notice (1 month before the end of the fixed-term contract). All this led to the power abuse, disrespectful treatment of employees, double standards and lack of transparency for other offices of B.com. All events in Berlin offices were muted in official communication channels.

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