Amadeus reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(4,401 total reviews)
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Luis Maroto

80% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Amadeus has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,401 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Amadeus employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Jul 12, 2014
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Pros

- no strict working hours - enough time for your personal "stuff". ( I had a french kid by my side watching youtube 6 hours per day). - Sophia Antipolis is a very nice place (if you have a car!). - Full of young nice people! - Good payment. - Is the french riviera!!!!! - Good place for having first slots filled on my CV (pls don't stay). - Good people for normal french people who want to live on a nice calm place inside a brain-dead stable job.

Cons

-Terrible commutation, more than 1 hour to get home on public transports. -Managers aren't real managers, and decision making is made by clowns. -Dev infrastructure is the worst kind. 0 Design patterns or architecture. Spaghetti code. No documentation. No functional knowledge. Archaic methodologies and sloooooow procedures. - No real growth in carriers. - They see contractors as objects, not human resources. - Elitism. - The English spoken by several higher ups (taking appart the french accent issue) is kinder-garden level like. - A terrible choice for any transport company. - nice vacations

1.0
Jan 12, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Good work/life balance (flexible hours, can work from home from time to time) Friendly coworkers

Cons

Legacy code all over. A few minor projects might be cool, but the main projects are untouchable: if you ever dream of proposing refactorings, forget about it. Working code must never be changed. And code quality is incredibly low, probably also because the average senior developers usually have no more than 5 years experience. Testing: mirroring the code quality. You have this "regressions" (which is just a bad name for some end to end tests) written in this awful custom scripting language, pretty impossible to understand unless you've worked here for more than one year. Unit testing is almost impossible: some brave hearts have tried, there is a framework available, but the components are too tighted, and badly written (huge classes with lots of static, enormous private methods), scenario setup is too difficult, so I gave up one or two weeks after I tried. And since you can't even refactor, it's useless. Development tools: extremely painful. You can only work on remote linux machines via ssh. You can't compile and edit code locally, you can't have an IDE (I've tried using it with a remote filesystem share, but it's too slow), and building in those remote machines really takes a huge amount of time. Learning curve is way too steep. People here talk their own language, they use acronyms for everything. There are a few trainings available, from time to time, but it's far from sufficient: the projects are too big, too badly written, and nobody really explains you anything. Coworkers are usually friendly enough to answer every question you ask, but to be able to work on your own you'd really need someone to stick in pair with you for months. Too much bureaucracy: you spend a huge amount of time tracking records and filling forms. And nobody explains anything in advance: some day you just discover that you have to do this or that procedure, or maybe that you even had been named as "load responsible for the week" (they use to call it sheriff), and you haven't the faintest idea of what you're even supposed to do. Finally, nobody really checks what are you up too, so many people simply slack in here. Developers have no challenging objectives, so everything is just "live and let live".

1.0
Feb 27, 2014
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Pros

1) A decent salary , better than Indian IT company .

Cons

1) Managers are very rude and they just shout on you no matter how much you explain yourself . 2) No respect for an employees personal life and they have 8 PM cabs which looks like a benefit but managers use this facility to make employee sit in office till 8 PM . 3) Doesn't matter weather you are honest with your work , flattering is the key to success . 4) HR department seems to be rubber stamp and it looks they have no work in this company. 5) Purely service based attitude and all they care is to make their French colleague happy . 6) Very less on site opportunities that to mostly a month or maximum 3 months that too if you are lucky . 7) No infrastructure provided for recreational activities after like a year maximum they provided is 1 TT Board for 850 + employees . 8) Team outing are done during weekends and that too the budget is fixed for 500 Per quarter 9) Pathetic food provided . 10) Lot of internal tools and outdated technology used which have no value outside this company

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