disappointing - Anonymous employee Booking.com Employee Review

2.0
Jul 3, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. People 2. Lunch 3. Team outings 4. General atmosphere

Cons

1. Work on your own project. Otherwise, you're helping someone else gets promoted. 2. Make sure your manager can take some credit for your project or at very least approves it. 3. Self-promote relentlessly. 4. Use only positive language, no one likes whiners. 5. Remember to show loyalty and commitment: managers love it 6. Let other show ponies flourish, don't criticize their projects. 7. Never challenge the rules however stupid they are. People who came up with them are more important than you. 8. Don't trust your manager. 9. Be fake and ask everyone for feedback: people love submissive behaviour. 10. Never show discontent with your performance score or compensation. They won't change anyways but you will be labelled as disloyal. 11. CPO it's a joke.

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Booking.com Response
7y
We appreciate you taking the time to write this feedback. We value being a collaborative company with opportunities for you to develop your career. Though you’re no longer with us, please know that we have been working towards making improvements to our employee experience. That includes working with local managers on how they can better support, evaluate and enable their teams. We are also looking into policies that improve the way we evaluate and develop our employees. Should you have more feedback, please feel free to email our HR team. We are always looking to improve our workplace and feedback like yours is invaluable. Many thanks, The People Team at Booking.com

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