Stay away! Cronyism, mismanagement, lies. - Anonymous employee Booking.com Employee Review

Do not join this horror show. It WILL ruin your life. Everything is rotten: management is so incompetent and simply "got there by mistake" that it horribly fears smart people with innovative idea and credentials. All the best talents are leaving or about to leave because they're pushed out by idiotic managers who play games with people's lifes. Do you know people get hired from outside Europe (they call it diversity but it's cost saving), uprooted from their previous life, then parked in a limbo where they have no scope, no team, no goals? I know of at least 4 or 5 highly paid positions especially in Product Management that literally have no work to do and left on the bench: the best part is that nobody told them in advance! Bad situations like this can happen TO YOU because management doesn't exist here. The only way to survive is to obliterate your professional dignity and become a 'yes man' drone: do not buy any of the recruiters' lies about the company culture, they are well known for being the most incompetent of all workers at Booking and are rewarded for their ability to just lure people with lies and hit the quotas. I cannot but stress how you should STAY AWAY from this company which completely lost its direction and strategy. Nobody knows what is going on and top leadership is panicking. Booking.com, once the most efficient PPC machine to sell hotels, has entered its senility and won't find any rejuvenation potion anywhere: its tech is decrepit, its management fears innovation, its best people are leaving. Over the next few years the company will have theee options like most old people: slowly dying at home on its own bed surrounded by family; dying in a hospice under a heavy amount of pain-relieving drugs; euthanasia. If you have ears, listen.