Navitaire Suffers From a Leadership and Management Crisis - Senior Software Engineer Amadeus Employee Review

2.0
Mar 6, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

I've been with Navitaire since the Accenture days and have enjoyed my job. Until the last few years, the company seemed like a big family and it was a very friendly and stable place to work. My coworkers are some of the brightest people I've ever known.

Cons

Navitaire lacks leadership. The C-Level likes to lead from afar and when they engage with employees they are embarrassingly out of touch and aloof. Lately, there have been questionable hires. Navitaire has had 3 different development directors over the last 3 years. Two of the three know nothing about the airline industry but are allowed to set the direction for our development strategy. Sidelining the dev director who built Navitaire in favor of flashy new guys with zero airline experience was a really really bad idea. There are some good dev managers, but most got promoted due to how long they've been with the company and not qualifications or management experience. Now there are a lot who have no leadership training or management experience but are in charge of large teams. We've lost talented and tenured team members because they lost respect for those in charge of things. Hopefully Navitaire can figure out the management and leadership crisis that plagues us before the intellectual capital leaves.

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Cons

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Cons

- Management is aggressively enforcing a hybrid model, even for remote employees, and is rescinding previously agreed upon contracts. There's a glaring lack of strategic vision from leadership. - If you're based in Europe or North America, job security is virtually nonexistent unless you're in upper management. Roles are being shifted to India, Colombia, and the Philippines, with cost-cutting prioritized over talent, experience, or loyalty. - The forced migration to Azure, compounded by poor planning, is draining resources. And employees are paying the price — not just through increased workload, but by being let go in recent layoffs (October '25). With many of the positions eliminated quietly transferred to offshore. - Layoffs are being justified as “market alignment” and financial necessity. Yet at the same time, the company continues to absorb small to medium-sized companies, raising serious questions about transparency, priorities, and long-term stability.

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