good company with nice work\life balance - Site Reliability Engineer Booking.com Employee Review

5.0
Jan 6, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

- super smart colleagues - very relaxed work\life balance: you can go home at 17:00 and don't think about work till the next day - the huge scale to work with - challenging technical problems - qualified top-management which knows what it wants - data-driven culture: if you have good data to support the change, you are free to implement it. if you have good reasoning, you can also "sell" your change to the management and make organizational changes. - a lot of things are unperfect but in motion to determine how to make them better, and the company seems to care to make things better - people are very helpful and we have lots of amazing communities with people supporting each other and discussing common interests. in Amsterdam, if you want you can live without having friends outside of work, and you would have a lot of communications with a diverse range of people nonetheless.

Cons

- the promotion process is one of the unperfect things which is in motion at the time of writing, which means that you don't know for sure what exactly will be the criteria on the next promotion cycle. however hard-working people with lots of impacts get recognized and promoted regardless of current rules changes and this only affects only someone who is in the grey area and doesn't have a solid case for promotion.

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5.0
May 30, 2026
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Pros

Great, definitely recommend if looking for start up

Cons

No cons all pros only

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Booking.com Response
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Hi, thank you for the wonderful feedback! We're so glad to hear that Booking.com has been a great fit for someone with a startup mindset. Our culture of experimentation and innovation is something we're really proud of, and it's great to know it resonates. We hope you continue to thrive here! The Booking.com team
4.0
Jul 7, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

People are great, I have created amazing connections and friendships along the way. Fun work environment we work hard but are able to play harder. Global reach, often connecting with people around the world.

Cons

Not much mobility and constant change. Hard to be stable in that kind of environment. Many times the plan is not fully complete before expecting execution and very siloed creating duplication of effort and work.

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