Vantaggi
Relaxing work / life balance. Coming to work a bit late is not an issue. Leaving earlier is not a big deal. Sophia-Antipolis and the area around Nice is very beautiful. Free coffee from machines. If you come from a MS Windows world, you will eventually appreciate Unix Some training is provided depending on whether you are full staff or contractor. Some departments run regression tests which kind of prevents breaking existing functionalities
Svantaggi
No, no I am not one of these pathetic guys who always complain. In fact I left a nice career to be stuck in France with another phenomenal boring role, much worse than I was promised it would be.. The technology is 20 years old. Its impossible to learn a new technology, because you will be stuck to solve boring bugs (PTRs) in C++. All the tools are internal to Amadeus. Pretty useless next time that you go to an interview to discuss about it as nobody will know them. I found the code quality to be shocking. If you like career progression, simply forget it. If you are not French you go nowhere, the most you can go is Unit manager after perhaps 6-7 years of service. Until then you will be fixing crap code and you will be fighting with your PDFs (business analysts) over overcomplicated specs. If you like to suggest ideas, you'd better talk to your wall at home. It listens much more. Unit managers think that they are gods. Senior managers are untouchables. They only care about their quality measures and their budgets. You feel like the lowest worker under that hierarchy. Amadeus seems to collect the most unsociable people you'll every come across and you have to put up with it. Inevitably you become one of them. You stop to talk, you send a chat to your colleague who sits next to you and you dont want to help anyone, coz they did the same to you all those years... You have a question? In Amadeus noone is willing to help you...and I mean it. noone. Everyone is passing the issue to another and nobody team's responsible.