Booking.com reviews

• High degree of favoritism within a team, excessive office politics between teams, and HR has zero confidentiality • Management lacks transparency & constantly changes direction while hiding behind the pretense "Booking loves A/B testing: fail fast, fail often" • Pay is below market rate and other benefits (e.g. travel credit) are heavily taxed • Management sets ambiguous KPI and cannot commit nor provide the metrics used for performance review (how can employees meet/exceed expectation without knowing the benchmarks) • Bonus is "discretionary" - meaning management will find excuses to prevent full payout even if employees exceed target • Work flexibility (start/end time, ability to work from home, duration of breaks) depends on personal relationship with the manager, not business needs • Employees are often on PIP with little time to demonstrate improvement before they are terminated

You'll never make as much as you would at a competitor. The company is painfully bureaucratic. Everything is top-down from Amsterdam, so if you are not in that city you will find it more or less impossible to get your voice heard.