your team is what will define your experience at the company - Recensione dipendente - Software Developer presso Booking.com

1,0
17 apr 2020
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

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Salary, office, Amsterdam and lot of smart and friendly people from all over the world.

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It all depends on your team. Some teams are really nice but most of the teams work on super boring and uninteresting stuff with horribly low quality code, some teams are super toxic and this is allowed by bad, inexperienced and unethical management. Everything related to ethics and code of conduct is only here for marketing. We have to spend hours watching mandatory compliance training. But I was victim of harassment, defamation and then retaliation when reported (the author was friend with our manager), and HR and compliance sided with manager, removing conversations from our communication tool that I pointed as proof of defamation, took 3 months to finish their "investigation" and at the end did nothing. The bully and the manager got promoted less than a year following my report. Performance evaluation, be it good score or bad score, promotions and sanctions are mostly about politics. It is a place where it is not safe to speak your mind as you are risking retaliation. Your compensation depend on your performance score. The process is really bad with no clear expectations, it is all vague and subjective and at the end of the day it is just a forced ranking in disguise, where 70%++ of people will get an average score and cannot be promoted for at least 1 year and without any concrete reasons given, that is just the default score.

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Risposta di Booking.com
6y
Thank you for sharing your feedback and we were sorry to hear about your experience here with us. This is certainly not the colleague experience we are striving for. We take reports of harassment seriously and we're disappointed to hear that you feel you have been exposed to this behaviour in your office. Please contact your HR Business Partner or our compliance helpline if you wish to make a complaint – your call will be completely confidential. We also want to assure you that every report of harassment is fully investigated. Due to confidentiality, we aren't always able to provide updates back. In your situation it sounds like it took a long time. We are assessing how we can better communicate any developments in the future. Please know we take your concerns about management seriously and that we have a clear policy on favouritism and strict policy on internal promotions in our code of conduct. Misconduct of these policies are not tolerated and will have consequences. In fact, we have already taken many steps to ensure everyone is assessed fairly and consistently. We want all our colleagues to enjoy the same opportunities for growth and development and we are making significant investments in our manager training to help ensure fairness and consistency (and to be less exposed to the perceived "pot luck" you are referring to - meaning how your career progresses based on which team you join). If you would like to know more about what's being done, or would like to voice your concerns directly, please feel free to contact us. These are challenging times for our industry and at Booking.com. While we are striving to do our best and our values should shine through everything we do, we are sorry to see that your experience has been different. We are here if you want to discuss it either in person, or anonymously through our helpline. Thanks again for your feedback. The People Team at Booking.com

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5,0
30 mag 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Great, definitely recommend if looking for start up

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No cons all pros only

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Risposta di Booking.com
4d
Hi, thank you for the wonderful feedback! We're so glad to hear that Booking.com has been a great fit for someone with a startup mindset. Our culture of experimentation and innovation is something we're really proud of, and it's great to know it resonates. We hope you continue to thrive here! The Booking.com team
3,0
4 giu 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Flexibility, make your own schedule

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NO learning and development Opportunities for growth often required moving into a different role or team found the compensation to be below market

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