Booking.com Software Engineer reviews

- Disappointing base salary compared to other tech companies, for juniors and seniors - Developers, sysadmins, DBAs, & network admins kept segregated - be prepared to file lots of tickets in JIRA - IT department in general, and sysadmins particularly, resist new technology - Lots of politics in some sections, and two-faced behavior from management - Dull and noisy office environment - some renovations have been done, but not enough - Bad allocation of hardware and developers - the company uses hindsight rather than foresight (strange when making so much money)

another web based company who have made so many failed attempts in the last 3 years at a mobile presence it's embarrassing. the quality of the engineering is pitiful, with the obsession on quick fixes and hacks to increase 'conversion' as opposed to anything scalable or robust. from the top down, the bullying, call-centre culture the business was borne out of still permeates. if you are a software engineer wants to be challenged, rentalcars is not for you. if you want to argue the toss about a/b testing on native apps, or backend api design with inept managements then fill your boots. as an aside to this, the hours are unusually long (40/week) and there is absolutely nothing in terms of personal development or staff perks. you even have to provide your own coffee - archaic...