Is Booking.com a good company to work for as a Software Developer?

Software Developer professionals working at Booking.com have rated their employer with 3.7 out of 5 stars in 259 Glassdoor reviews. This is a lower than average score with the overall rating of Booking.com employees being 4.0 out of 5 stars. Search open Software Developer Jobs at Booking.com now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Software Developer interview questions at Booking.com .

Does Booking.com pay Software Developer employees well?

Software Developer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at Booking.com with 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 259 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is equal to the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Software Developer salaries at Booking.com.

How happy are Software Developer professionals working at Booking.com?

74% of Software Developer employees at Booking.com would recommend their employer to a friend. This rating has increased by 11% in the past 12 months. Software Developer professionals have also rated Booking.com with a 4.4 rating for work-life-balance, 4.2 rating for diversity and inclusion, 3.7 rating for culture and values and 3.0 rating for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Booking.com?

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What are the pros of working at Booking.com according to real employee reviews?

"Benefits (apart from pay) are also good and the company is putting a lot of effort into improving managers' skillset." ((in 612 reviews)); "The recruiter of this company should be praised since I meet so many great people at work" ((in 589 reviews)); "As everybody says colleagues are great an the team is very multiculcural" ((in 528 reviews)); "Great culture and values which are part of the company's actions and not just words." ((in 516 reviews)); "Very good salary compared to Dutch companies (and Europe in general specially if you qualify for 30%)" ((in 376 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Booking.com according to real employee reviews?

"Management is bad very bad so so bad" ((in 482 reviews)); "Bad managers are very bad" ((in 254 reviews)); "Lack of company vision and poor leadership" ((in 102 reviews)); "No career opportunities in Zagreb" ((in 62 reviews)); "• Blatant Favoritism within the office" ((in 59 reviews))

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Booking.com Software Developer reviews

3.7

74% would recommend to a friend

(259 total reviews)

Glenn Fogel

45% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.4

Work/Life balance

4.2

Diversity & inclusion

4.2

Compensation and benefits

3.7

Culture & values

3.0

Career opportunities

2.8

Senior management

Software Developer employees have rated Booking.com with 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 259 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Booking.com 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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259 reviews

4.0

Aug 14, 2016

Software Engineer

Software engineer

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Pros

Good scope of technologies. Can move around the company. Good location and culture.

Cons

Agile overkill. Use of business owners who don't understand what they are talking about. Losing its entrepreneurial sprit. Not retiring old software.

Booking.com Response

Hi and thanks as always for your review. We really do appreciate all feedback. You clearly have some strong views on Agile and whilst I would not say that "overkill" is an adjective I recognise, I would encourage you to discuss your concerns with your manager or another member of the team or the people team. Ironically, one of the positive things people often cite about entrepreneurial businesses is their agility. Our job is to remain as fleet of foot as possible in a rapidly growing business of +1200 colleagues. Our recent restructure is all about this. As I hope you have recently heard we are advanced in our plans for renewing our platforms and old systems but this will take time and careful planning. Many businesses have come a cropper in this area so we need to get it right, Thanks again Ryan

4.0

May 28, 2016

Nice place, but not for an engineer.

Software developer

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Pros

Nice benefits, especially if you like to travel. Chill office culture, there's very rarely a feeling that you're under pressure to complete something. Developers are professional and good to work with. Completely flat structure of IT department. Meaning, every developer is pretty much equal and allowed to design features and make technical decisions. Success of a feature is determined by results of A/B testing. So you can pretty much work on anything and noone will tell you that your idea is wrong, especially if it's successful on metrics. This is great if you are full of ideas and feel that management won't let you run with them.

Cons

Other side of the same things. Flat department structure means there's absolutely no plan and no control. Everyone can quietly implement a feature that doesn't fit with the rest of the code. On the other hand, if they get noticed, they are immediately harassed by every other peer developer who has something to say. Getting people to agree on anything is practically impossible, because there's no authority and someone always has an opinion against it. Every code change has to run through time-consuming A/B testing, which creates huge technical debt and makes it really difficult to deal with it. All of this is viewed as a feature, not a bug; the company actually hires even more developers to run as many features as possible.

5.0

Mar 12, 2016

Thank you

Software developer

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Pros

Best company I ever worked at! Always had a lot of opportunity to improve my technical skills. Lots of great people to work with and learn from. Management, specifically the CIO, that cares about the staff.

Cons

Work was a bit addicting sometimes so I worked long hours. But nobody forced or even encouraged me to do that. The company is growing fast. That's not everyone's cup of tea. There's less structure at a fast growing and already large company than at more settled companies. That can be good (opportunity) or bad (can feel chaotic).

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