Hotelbeds reviews

3.6

71% would recommend to a friend

(565 total reviews)
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Nicolas Huss

63% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Hotelbeds has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 565 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hotelbeds employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Turismo y hospedaje industry (3.6 stars).

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565 reviews
1.0
Oct 27, 2015

Pure farce - Perfect company for arse-lickers

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Pros

Excellent professionals (in general) on non-directive positions. They are the real workers and pillars of the company.

Cons

Don´t expect to grow inside the company, it´s always a mirage, as is not about how good and hard you work or your involvement, even the talent or self-value; only matters who are your dudes, husbands, wifes and clubbing dudes in management positions. There are three clearly differentiated classes, based on where you park, the table you work and the chair you own. First and Second classes are in a 90% completely worthless, always on trips, market-hubs and a completely wide variety of no sense events, where strenght their own colleagues tie, in order to be correctly positionated for every year changes in the organization. For things to remain the same, everything must change. And that´s how you see, every October, a parade of changing positions, where the mediocre assume their new roles, being the last to arrive and the first to receive the greetings, as if thanks to their non-efforts (as that´s the reality), the things go rolling.

1.0
Jun 17, 2015

A lot of work to do...

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Pros

The company has some entrepreneurial people who have good ideas. Some department are performing better then others. Good on creating ideas and brainstorming. You can wear flip flops and sandals in the summer and holiday clothes all year round.

Cons

Majority of Directors (in the company for years) are at the level (performance, strategy, vision) lof managers. They didn't see anything apart from Mallorca. High level of hierarchy: the big office, separate carpark place and ... a chair with white top are your attributes of power. The top management far away from the middle management challenges. Don't know which project to focus on, change the direction and creation of a lot of work. The few people experts in their fields and ready for change exhausted with the contant change of stockholder's briefs. Level of sexism, as a female you will be scanned top down regularly.

1.0
Mar 9, 2022

It's a mess

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Pros

There were happy times...from 2010 to 2016. If you don't like having a personal life, then HB is for you! Oh and Friday afternoon off is pretty cool too (only if you live in Palma ;))

Cons

The company is a mess. With the new CEO things were supposed to change, but he is only hiring his former colleagues from Visa and Ingenico or French acquantainces for top executive positions. The company was already Spanish self centered and now is French self centered. Hotelbeds forces you to lie to hotels in order to sell more (for example opening distribution lists on weekends or at nights to sell on OTAs, charging them hidden fees, delaying payments etcetc). Targets are unachievable and the only way to achieve them is by tricking the system or by inflating the numbers, so it looks better to the investors. Decisions are taken by people that are not in the field and that they only way of pushing the teams is creating Tableau dashboards and Salesforce opportunities rushing them to close everything so it looks pretty on a ppt. Hotelbeds aims for quantity over quality, they will push you to make 12 meetings per week as a CM and 25 if you're a YM with hotels without looking at what's behind those meetings. Every year, there is a new target and a new structure. Portfolios are redistributed and the pressure is high to get quick results. Everything is done to prepare the company to be sold.

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