Pros
Good salary + yearly stock bonus (at least in IT). Flexible hybrid work, bike benefit + Booking benefit you can spend on hotel reservations. New laptop every three years. You can learn new things, if they happen to be currently valued by the company (AWS, AI). Lunch is so-so, but well above its price tag (your lunch on office days is deducted from your salary). The new office is easily reachable.
Cons
Strict top-down management with a generous dose of micromanagement. Forget about any "hard work recognition", if you don't blow your own horn nobody will notice you, and even then you have to go through multiple hoops to be awarded a promotion. That promotion is the only way to get a raise (apart from a yearly inflation adjustment, which is below the inflation rate). Mind you, part-time work and promotion are mutually exclusive. If you enjoy open (and loud) space office and plenty of meetings, you will love this place, otherwise think twice. Attrition is immense, so if you have been around more than four years, you are a seasoned employee; two years more and you are a dinosaur. Most people treat it as a trampoline to their career, so they leave after 2-3 years and don't care too much. As a consequence, there's plenty of undocumented and unmaintained abandonware, some of it in Perl. Booking is happy to recruit ex-Amazon managers, so if you like that style - go for it. DEI used to be a huge thing, but as the wind changed in US, there's some push towards the "normality" (aka conservatism).
