eDreams ODIGEO reviews

4.1

85% would recommend to a friend

(454 total reviews)
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Dana Dunne

91% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

eDreams ODIGEO has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 454 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The eDreams ODIGEO 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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1.0
Sep 27, 2017
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Pros

Fancy office The attempt to be an agile company Bring some nice events/lectures

Cons

Their stack of technologies fell behind by ages. Trust me, unless you hate your career, don't believe in their propaganda to hire. You'll be using the oldest possible version of the languages, application servers, frameworks and so on. They've asked to upvote their status here on Glassdoor - which is unfair since the people are not sharing the reality. The CEO is the example of how to not do the things: usually, he publicly humiliates some employees, calling them from mediocre in front of > 1500 people. If you have > 10 years of experience in the market, you aren't a Senior Software Engineer for EDreams - the Senior is a title granted just to people who are more than 5 years doing jerry-rigs / kludges inside the company - you're just an outlander arriving to bring them problems. Why using a standard library (to save time, avoid reinventing the wheel and use a bullet-proof solution)? No, let's create our home-made frameworks to everything from a Scheduler / Messaging system to date format conversion. If you are a newcomer, don't dare to bring innovation: you don't have this right! By the way, it's feasible that some people will make fun of you behind your back (even if your suggestion adds value to the company). During the official events, you'll hear things like: "Try to persuade a group of X people about your idea/technology adoption suggestion, then you bring these ideas to us, to be discussed" - forget too: If you do, you will listen to that: "we won't adopt this. It is vetoed because the chief architect doesn't like - with no further explanation". People are used to sneakingly sabotage someone else plans. For example, an important guy (CTO, to be specific) is trying to implement an agile culture and change the way that the teams are distributed - their independence, etc. Behind his back, or even in front of him (as the poor guy is a foreigner), some team-leaders / architects are mocking the proposition all the time and clearly preventing it to occur (as they'd be useless if the plan was fully implemented).

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Thank you for sharing your thoughts! We are happy to see you benefited from the ongoing learning and development opportunities; we are commited to inspire people about new technologies and increase technical knowledge and as part of the annual IT Training plan, we will continue to offer workshops, internal/external trainings, online learning courses and rockstar talks. Asking colleagues to upvote on Glassdoor is against Glassdoor policies, and we do not encourage this - we value transparency and we can leverage this actionable feedback to enact positive changes. Furthermore, we are committed to creating a comfortable and collaborative working environment, and we do have a zero tolerance policy on discriminatory behaviors. We encourage colleagues that witness this sort of behaviour to speak to their line manager / HR Business Partner immediately, to ensure that any form of unethical behaviours is addressed. Please feel free to contact us and discuss in more details. Thank you again for taking the time to provide your feedback!
1.0
Feb 16, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

They gave me a laptop

Cons

- My skills don't matter, I am expected only to code and not ask any questions - Lower salary, impossible to promote - tech stack is from WW2 (super old) - they don't update anything and are living in the 90ties - any opinion/proposal or initiative faces extreme push back from all levels - people are afraid to speak, a lot of work visa slaves, some stories made me sad - turnover is huge, with 25+ new joiners every week or two, the employee count remains the same - toxic upper management, to them you are just a disposable resource - they don't do microservices, don't believe them - they lied to me during the interview about the tech stack The list goes on and on, but you get the idea. If you want to grow and learn don't come here EDIT: OH YES they have "values" that you are supposed to follow, but the people with power don't follow them. (For example, architects are above everybody and you can't challenge what they say or else you get in trouble). Becoming an architect should be approved by all of them before that (its like a cult, super weird)

1.0
May 20, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- Workload is low - I've met some nice people - they have some benefits, I took some language classes

Cons

- You code and don't think - No freedom to choose anything you follow orders from architects - Architects live in the 90ties and the tech stack is even older - Full of bad practices, like DB team, tech team, monitoring team, very unflexible - Prod issues go unnoticed for days because there are no real team domain boundaries - teams are NOT independent don't believe anything they tell you in the interview - they use super old out dated technologies (like 20+ year old) - custom libraries for everything, open source free libraries exist but the are forbidden because someone is afraid to lose their job - promotion is impossible. To get promoted you need to do things that are forbidden by architects (very silly) - CI/CD is very clumsy and involves manual steps, you are not allowed to change it. It gets frustrating over time - they use forks and branches are forbidden - salaries are not good (coupled with hard to get a raise or promotion makes this a big problem) - toxic environments people are afraid to speak up. A bunch of company simps are trying to convince you that everything is working fine and all of this bs is normal - Do I really have to say more? I thought such companies existed only in the books

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