Booking.com reviews

4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(1,119 total reviews)
avatar

Glenn Fogel

71% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Reviews by job title

1K reviews

Reviews about "Culture"

Return to all reviews
3.0
Jul 19, 2019

Account Manager

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits, amazing offices, learning opportunities in different offices, cool swag, lots of healthy snacks in offices and more!

Cons

Booking North America does not live the culture as it is in Europe. Offices have favoritism 100%, if you don’t kiss on people the moment you arrive with the area manager or your manager you won’t grow anywhere. Friendship gets in between the jobs and people don’t get what they want cause they deserve it, more so because they knew who to connect with to make it there. If you complain with HR regarding these serious issues, nothing will happen because again, favoritism takes place. In other words, Booking NA is pretty corrupted. If you say the truth of what is happening, trust me you will be hated and they’ll do anything possible so you quit.

1.0
Jul 18, 2019

Awful for career growth.

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The lunch is good and practically free.

Cons

Awful career progression and management. Leadership team constantly changes the rules under the claim of 'transparency' but worsens the situation. Complete nonsense buzzwords like fairness and transparency used as an excuse for terrible decisions. No communication around new rules, just rumours flying everywhere about the changes. Latest rules can require years and years of waiting between promotions. Middle management unwilling to make leadership aware of employee pain. A hapless Works Council completely unable to defend employees against unreasonable impositions. Just, sad.

3.0
Jul 4, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Free food, free coffee, location is convenient. Chill environment. Pay is decent only if you work the night shift where you can get paid almost up to $16.50; regular pay is $14.25. If you do OT, your checks can average about $1500-2000 a week, but of course that's working 10-12hr shifts 5-6 days a week. It starts out wonderful. The first two weeks of training they make you do for the first part of your position (Customer Service Guest Executive). They are very hands on but only give you about 10% of information for you and then send you out to the floor for a month.

Cons

If you're not used to Customer Service, working in a fast paced environment, or used to teaching yourself, you are thrown to the wolves. While there are plenty of employees around that could help, you are assigned to a specific team and if people don't know you, they make it seem like you're a bother to them. I, unfortunately, was 1 of 6 others who were not assigned to a team once we officially started. We were all placed on different teams as "Foster Kids" as they called us. The team I was put on were only there for about 2hrs of my shift (I worked 5pm-1:30am) and by then, everyone was gone. Who did I have to ask for help all those hours? No one except the other 3 girls who also had no team or we had to call the Senior Line religiously to make sure we were doing things correctly. We all had to help each other get by and figure things out. A month later, they bring you back for two more weeks of training to be a Specialist and you learn more about the things you couldn't work on as an Executive. The third month they finally hired a Team Lead and I was assigned but they did not start to actually coach me on things until halfway through the third month. This place likes to talk about being empowered and lifting people up but it has a very fake Family Corporate feel. Promotions are given to those that are loyal to management. If management doesn't like you they'll set you up for failure to create a situation where they might have an excuse to terminate an otherwise great employee. I was fired by someone in the company who I was "friends" with on social media and they reported my posts about celebrating my success for completion of training with the company and also several praises I received from guests as well. Whatever jealousy or personal vendetta they had against me worked. Of course the company won't admit that for the persons protection but, I had made those posts months prior and I had recently not had good relations with the person who reported me. I have never worked for a company that disciplines people for celebrating success with the company they work for. My advice, use this as a stepping stone to increase your customer service and problem solving skills. Unless you are a "teacher's pet" and fit in with the high school clique feel, by all means, they will welcome you with cake and cookies...literally.

Viewing 826 - 828 of 1,119 Reviews

Glassdoor has 9,172 Booking.com reviews submitted anonymously by Booking.com employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Booking.com is right for you.