Amadeus Software Developer reviews

3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(526 total reviews)
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Luis Maroto

68% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Amadeus with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 526 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Amadeus is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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526 reviews
1.0
Sep 15, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

If you're lucky and proposed a position in one of their middleware departments you might tackle with some interesting problems. If not, just don't take the job, it's not worth the cons.

Cons

Unless you come from one of the top French engineering great school, you will always be seen as a second class player. As a consequence, lots of experienced developers get frustrated and leave the company after 2 or 3 years (contractor and staff alike) so that remaining engineers are very average, not really passionate with their jobs and only sticking with Amadeus to enjoy outdoors in the French riviera (9:30am-5:30pm + 2h break is not uncommon). The company isn't really agile and still struggling with legacy technologies (they claim they got rid of the legacy mainframe infrastructure but they didn't), so don't expect working on shinny bleeding edge technologies and be prepared to deal with boring stuff like TPF, TN3270 ... Senior employee (especially on the operation side) are unhelpful since they don't want to see their stuff decommissioned and have to work on new things. Dealing with employees (including management) who have no idea what they're doing isn't uncommon. On an average I spent 70% of my time doing maintenance work. Quality process is on a per team basis and almost in-existent.

3.0
Sep 2, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

complex architecture, there's plenty to learn everything in the backend part is coded in C++ third party libraries are allowed

Cons

60%-80% of time is due to maintenance, since Amadeus hosts everything 50% of people are external consultants, needless to say that a consultant's salary is way lower than a regular empoyee. They are now at a point where they can not hire easily people that have been working there as consultants for years, because that would be a financial problem for the consulting companies. Because of this crazy policy to hire through consulting companies, people tend to leave soon, and there is a huge turnover. Management doesn't push enough for hiring consultants, and in some cases you can end up in a team where only your team leader is a regular amadeus staff. There are also cases of full teams/products being developed by external societies within amadeus premises. To recap: you will be working your ass off, for less money than what a regular employee is payed, and you will not get hired easily. Going up in the ladder is no more fun, team leaders just don't care about their products, all they do is trying to have some more budget to do maintenance. There are internal fights between departments, and if you need another team to do something for you, you will have to wait months for just a minor change. People in general are not proactive and all they want is their paycheck at the end of the month. On the other hand, if that's what you're looking for, Amadeus might be the place for you. You can do 9:30am-6pm, with nice 2h lunch break and no one is ever gonna bother you. There is a cantine, where, if you are a consultant, you will have to pay around double what a regular employee pays. Most of the engineers are new grads, ie. not experienced and not trained In conclusion, if you can not find anything else, or if you enjoy a lay back culture, this might be the place for you. If you want to work with smart people, in a company that cares about you, drive away from Amadeus.

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