Booking.com reviews

4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(7,593 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 7,593 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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1.0
Oct 27, 2016
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Pros

Some of the benefits you get like the free lunches, fruits, drinks, bonus package etc... The international atmosphere The support you get from some of the senior team

Cons

Have only worked there for less than 6 months but I have witnessed on a few occasion the abuse of power from the management team. One of my colleagues was on the borderline of being sexually abused during a work event by a team leader and nothing was done about it. When a complain was raised to higher management, it got completely brushed under the carpet. Another colleague was being pushed around and verbally abused by another team leader during another social event and once again nothing was done. The team leaders seem to be untouchable and this is a shame. It is also a common practice for team leaders to be sleeping around with agents. The current site leader is invisible and the managers are just focus on their targets.

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Booking.com Response
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Thank you for sharing this valuable feedback. We take reports of sexual harassment extremely seriously here. Every complaint is fully investigated and if it’s substantiated, we take appropriate actions. We hope you can understand that results to investigations are kept confidential, but we are working on ways we can communicate updates. We believe in creating a safe workplace for everyone. Harassment, abuse and inappropriate behaviour targeted towards colleagues are absolutely against our values. If employees know of this going on, we encourage you to report it to your HR Business Partner or the confidential 24-hour ethics & compliance helpline. Getting feedback through our internal official channels is the best way to get these issues resolved. Thank you, The People Team at Booking.com
3.0
Dec 14, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

They offer adequate compensation, and have very nice benefits including quarterly bonuses. After one year of employment, there are a lot opportunities for advancement.

Cons

They promise you a schedule in the phone interview, and then give you something totally different once you're in training. They are not flexible at all when it comes to the schedule. The training program is 5 weeks long, but it doesn't mean much as they change the system so often. There was a major change in the system the day after we were trained on it, and all they said was, "Get used to change." There is nothing special about you at Booking.com. No matter how hard you work, or how high your CSAT (customer satisfaction) is, you are completely replaceable. The most you get for excelling in CSAT is a pat on the back, and a $25 gift card once in a great while. Your employment is solely dependent on your CSAT score. This is determined by a survey sent to customers via email after contact with you. More often than not, your dissatisfied surveys are due to the situation, and not your service, but there is no way to dispute this. Even if the guest leaves a comment that praises the you highly, but clicks dissatisfied by mistake, it still counts as a negative score. They constantly promote team effort, and reiterate how important it is to work with your team, but there are no opportunities to do so. Every score that affects you directly is individual, and the overall team score only affects your team leader's bonus. The senior line is the line that you call when you need help in a situation, or a customer requests to speak to the manager. We are constantly told that we call them too much, and that we need to look at the procedure guidelines before calling, but I sat next to them, and I watch them goof off, and watch Youtube videos all day. Finally, the team leads. I'm sure not all of them are as bad as mine, but mine was ridiculous. She tells us to call her when we need help, but she is never at her desk. In the one on one feedback sessions, there was no feedback, just the same goal reiterated. Before our quarterly review, she asked that we tell her what we think our strengths and weaknesses are. On my review, she copied and pasted my email to her. Literally made me review myself, and added nothing to it.

1.0
Oct 14, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

At one time Booking.com Orlando was a great place to work it was a family a customer service center not a typical U.S. Call center. The guest was the priortity and internal advancement was open to all employees.

Cons

Unfortunately, Booking.com Orlando has become that dreaded U.S. Call center. Regardless of how you treat the guest with the best service possible the metrics are all that matter. The CSAT (customer survey) is not applicable just to the CSE but the CSE is held accountable for the survey even if it has nothing to do with their proformance and if the survey is low then you are written up on a 90 day write up for a 30 day metrics report. Completely unfair to the CSE - upper management does not seem to care or take this into consideration. I have worked for Bookng.com for 2yrs. I was in love with my job it was a family but now I hate getting out of bed and going to work. Think about it when 80 employees are fired in one month for no good reason just because upper management feels they are not being productive although they are and have been the original staff that has helped with bring Booking.com to the U.S. status it currently is in. There is no consideration for the employee! This is when you know that you need to leave and not refer anyone to work at Booking.com because you do not want for this unhappiness to happen to anyone else.

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