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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8K reviews
2.0
Sep 29, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

- Good entry position if looking for a way into the industry. - Can advance fairly quickly if you focus your time on making friends in the company and attending booze sessions with your boss. - Paid trips to Amsterdam and other parts of the world and country.

Cons

- Very low morale - Not a good place to work if you have a family, or want one - Not judged on your merit, but on who you're friends with. - Senior management inexperienced - Everything is in beta test mode always (throw everything to the wall and see what sticks) - Low pay compared to competitors - Too much focus on office gossip and industry gossip - Closer to a clubhouse atmosphere than a professional corporation

2.0
Feb 11, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

The company culture can be a positive aspect if you are young and single. Company paid happy hours and company outings. Health benefits are pretty good and well priced. Good people. Get to travel, can be good when you're not forced to do it at least 50% of the time.

Cons

Underpaid compared to their competition. Inexperienced management...company is growing quickly and management has no idea how to handle it. Most managers dont actually have management experience. So called "promotions" are not merit based. Get friendly with management and tell them they are great and you'll get a "promotion" where they'll cut your pay and give you more work. Constantly changing bonus structure with astronomical goals. False promises on bonuses...you might get it and then lose it. Bonuses are very small compared to competiton. No company cards for travel expenses. Pay out of pocket and then wait got reimbursed. HR is there for show, nothing ever gets handled the way it should. No growth potential at this point. If you started 5 or 6 years ago you could move up but not now. 17 year old international company with an unorganized startup feel to it. CEO said it best, "if you are here to make money the you are at the wrong place."

1.0
Jan 2, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Nice offices - mostly friendly people - nice location in the middle of Amsterdam

Cons

- Bad pay, poor bonuses - Most of the people working there are young and have no experience working anywhere else. They are therefore still immature in how they handle things and place great value on moving up the career ladder. Much more politics than you would expect. - Unclear requirements from management, refuse to clarify no matter how often you ask, then blame you for doing something that wasn't in the requirements. - Really disorganized. They call it "constant change", but really it's a bunch of chickens running around with their head cut off, not knowing what to do next. The company is growing faster than the structures that are in place, and it is causing big internal problems.

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