Amadeus Software Development Engineer reviews

- Not a very demanding job - it's not a place for achievers and dynamic people. - Just like at any other mediocre big company - politics, many small-minded people. - Most are not exactly experts on coding or management. - Severe lack of management and people skills on all levels - confrontation avoidance, lack of communication, occasional yelling. - People trash talk each other behind their backs and form cliques, management plays along. - Very very slow career progression or none at all. - For many people Amadeus is the only employer that they ever had. - Core technology is quite oldish and in-house, and over-all not very exciting. - Typical work distribution: 45% - bug investigation 45% - meetings about specifications and work coordination with other teams 10% - actual coding - Serious problems with transportation in general; rush hours in Sophia are the really bad. - All around it's nothing but villages and small towns (!!!). - Salaries for developers are quite low. - Everything takes ages. - Many people, often straight from universities, have far more confidence than knowledge - it's like working in Idiocracy. - Distrust, backstabbing, slander and fakeness are more common than at any company that I worked ever before.

Location is really bad. It's located near Heathrow Airport so nothing around besides a pub, really noisy outside the building and it will take a lot of time commuting to get there even from west London. There is not much room for development. You may be lucky and work in a new project but most probably you will be 90% maintenance - 10% development. After two years when you finish graduate scheme and are promoted as Software Engineer, you will take yearly raise in the region of 3.5%. No training is provided. They expect you to figure out everything yourself. Code is really messy, we are talking about methods having thousands of lines of code.