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      Booking.com Software Developer reviews

      3.7

      74% would recommend to a friend

      (260 total reviews)
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      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 260 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 IT (Information Technology) industry (3.9 stars).

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      260 reviews
      5.0
      Sep 22, 2016

      Great place to implement your travel ideas!

      Software developer
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      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      I really love hackathons that are organized every month. You can work on whatever idea you wish.

      Cons

      The salaries at Booking are not the best ones comparing to other big players in tech.

      4.0
      Aug 14, 2016

      Software Engineer

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      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.

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      Booking.com Response
      9y
      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
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      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.

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