Software engineers are seen as low level proles - you get no promotions, no transfers, no significant salary raises - your career moves at a glacial pace. Parallel to that the "people" people have a wonderful time, changing roles, traveling around the world, socializing on various events, playing important decision makers. No one cares about what software engineers have to say. That's because Amadeus is not really a technological company, more like a service company with an oligopolistic position in the world where friends and favors are the core of the business advantage. There's no innovation, don't believe the PR propaganda. They liked to compare themselves to Google which is really laughable knowing the real state of things in both companies. But Google is top dog leader, so Amadeus pretends like they're just like them lmao.
The core codebase is a convoluted overlycomplex mess made by inexperienced unmotivated software engineers, or very often people pretending to be software engineers without education in software engineering or computer science. I'm very sure most have no idea what's a linked list or computational complexity.
Virtually no one understands it, except a select few old timers, people throw around acronyms without knowing what they stand for, repeat what someone else told them without understanding just to not to look incompetent.
Amadeus' internal tools are another frustrating story. Always broken, always unfinished.
Coding is only about 10% of the time, the rest is testing, bug analysis and forwarding, dealing with release processes, and attending useless meetings.
Politics, favorism, gossipping, cliques, mediocrity. All of my managers were French, while the "proles" were from all over the world. Strange "coincidence".
After 2 years the salary is below average.
Just get this big brand on your CV for 1-2 years and leave, or avoid it completely.
