Base salary is low, some bonuses are offered but these are not work related, more about the brownie points you earned at your manager. New hires are dragged in with a low salary with the 30% tax benefit of the Netherlands (almost no Dutch are working there cause the salary is too low for them). There is no career path, everyone is hired as a senior but you will be officially 3 years later so it feels like a career. Booking.com believes in their "data-driven" approach (huge amount of small a/b tests), but there are so many factors that are involved that it is hard to get something thru. basically people with brilliant ideas should start working for a startup, good ideas always fail here in data! As mentioned for Amazon: also at booking i saw nice people cry about their job! And yes booking.com is a big player, and yes other companies will hire you cause it is on your CV, but if you like to work you do (code/design)... that is not at booking