Booking.com Reviews

Pros

First off the atmosphere and diversity is amazing. It’s an awesome company to work for. The pay is good and quarterly bonuses are a perk. They offer free food a lot and the canteen offers healthy food choices that B.com pays 50% of the price for. They offer Monster energy drinks in the canteen and free Starbucks coffee. The PTO is also very good.

Cons

None that I can think off.

Advice to Management

Keep up the amazing work. Management really cares about the employees and are always there for support and always there to help you get to the next level if you want.

Pros

An amazing team of talented people from all over the world. Great product with very interesting ongoing developments making it 100% dynamic.

Cons

Very difficult to grow. Basically, no space for professional development unless you are based in Amsterdam.

Advice to Management

Managers should have within their targets to grow their team members within the structure and help them achieve their professional goals. In the end, good professional with ambitions will tend to leave if there are no opportunities for professional development.

Pros

Very good benefits and work-life balance environment plus great culture and values

Cons

Uncompetitive salary paid among the OTAs industry, plus no Booking Annual Meeting in Amsterdam anymore

Advice to Management

Use the appropriate sources when conducting salary range research, should only involve OTAs not Hotels and we want the BAM back

Pros

intensive & regular training, great company culture

Cons

difficult to get promoted, don't give enough opportunities

Advice to Management

support internal staff with career progression

Pros

Flexible hours, lot of opportunities to develop personal skills and change career path

Cons

Nothing really major to report

Pros

It is one of the biggest firm in the world offering great opportunities to develop.

Cons

I don’t know what to say

Pros

- Great working culture, you can definitely be yourself in the office without being worried of any judgement, - management really appreciate good work, it doesn’t matter you’re a new employee, if you’re showing great job you can get promotion, - free buffet lunch everyday, - good work-life balance, nobody would ask you to work on weekend or when you’re on leaves, - the number or leaves days are much higher than other...

Cons

- Too many changes in policies and system (especially in Finance) which means employees would need to learn new ones almost every 6 months, - the career path in Regional or Local Office can’t be as good as in the head office (Amsterdam) due to the limitation of positions and departments.

Advice to Management

- Should make alignments among departments because sometimes a policy in Dept A is not aligned with another policy from Dept B, which might make our partners or customers confused, - make sure that the team has a good preparation and planning before launching new system to avoid bigger problem.

Pros

+ Diverse and dynamic atmosphere. Changes do happen in Booking and that's something which does energise me. + Positive environment where people are proud to work for Booking.com. + Still a strong vibe of being humble and approachable without being competitive. Little hierarchy and strong mentality of collaboration rather being individual contributer

Cons

- It is a given we are moving from a start-up environment to a maturity stage, which is a natural thing for a company this size. With maturing there can be times for uncertainty.