Booking.com reviews

4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(7,598 total reviews)
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Glenn Fogel

70% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Booking.com has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 7,598 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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8K reviews
2.0
Sep 19, 2018

Avoid

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Free breakfast, fruits, coffees, teas

Cons

Tough to manage out under performing staff and that makes a manager’s job even harder. If you have staff that aren't up to standard you have to persevere for months until you might be able to get something done, even then it’s to difficult. This whole process contributes to leaving the business with low productivity and things moving nowhere slowly. Don’t dare recommend a change to an HR process, you’ll be tagged as a undesirable; these people want to hear feedback so long as it isn’t about their own processes. There seems to be very little enthusiasm for the goals of the business from general senior management. Yet you'll be subjected to constant propaganda that everything is better than it is. Lots of wonderful events going on all over the business but what is really being delivered other than the business as usual? Bloated workforce with poor leaders leading to poor communication, progress and innovation. The business is too slow to react to changing circumstances, probably a symptom from having too many people involved in the most minor things with a lack of clear direction. Workforce needs to be trimmed but HR will block. Innovation in the business is poor. Biggest innovation is supposed to be Rideways but the department is mess and morale is low. Things are over complicated before the basics are in place. Avoid working in Rideways. Many rockets explode on lift off so best to ask a few questions before jumping on this rocket.

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Booking.com Response
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Hiya thanks for your feedback, I'm glad you like the breakfast it's the most important meal of the day 😄 I'd also like to say that whilst I'm disappointed by your feedback, it did make me smile a bit with your Rocket reference, it's nice to know that people do read my replies. The overriding thing for me from your feedback is that I'd love to talk to you. I think we have a great business and I do not think the rocket is going to explode. However, we want to be an amazing place to work and we still have a lot to do. I'm not defensive at all over the last week or so I have personally read more than 1000 comments from colleagues across the business about what they like and don't like about us. Please do get in touch (use Rocket Man as a code if you like) seriously, no judgement, no repercussion, I'll buy the coffee if you like, I'd just love a chat. Only proviso is I'm heading off soon to get married and go on honeymoon so if there is no reply that's why. Thanks again Ryan
1.0
Sep 1, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The pay and benefits are great. The free fruit and discounted food items are awesome and most of the employees are hardworking and kind. It’s not a bad company overall

Cons

1.All of the on-site Team Leads (literally all of them) that direct the employees are corrupt, two-faced, and cliquey, preferring to cause unnecessary drama and spread rumors instead of supporting and directing their subordinates. Few are ever available because they’re always stuck in meetings if they’re not making false accusations toward those they dislike for no reason, often lying to and bullying perfectly good workers into quitting, which only adds to the company’s astronomical turnover rate. The job is doable if you work hard and try not to take other people’s words on the phone too seriously, but the management makes going to work a living hell. 2. There is no real procedure for protecting oneself from harassment and those who do so are punished far too severely. 3. Employees are constantly belittled for not doing better at satisfying guests when the job consists mainly of handling customer complaints, being yelled at or bullied and harassed by angry guests over the phone. The most your work/effort is celebrated is when you get put on a tv slideshow next to the bathroom for perfect attendance or a good customer review once a quarter. 4. The senior specialists that you’re required to call for assistance or approval have a tendency in some offices to be condescending and egotistical. Many will continuously talk over you and refuse to help if you’re new or untrained in complaints, some will go as far as to instruct you to do things that are against company policy and sometimes even the law. Senior specialists aren’t always useless and unhelpful, but a great deal of them are not properly trained, checked on by management, or given proper feedback by anybody that matters.

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