Goodbye Berlin - Anonymous employee Booking.com Employee Review

3.0
May 30, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

great people culture, offsite events

Cons

Operational problems: Different alignments in decision making processes. Lots of grey zones in CS procedures. Procedures are written by people who have no idea about the real workflow. Feedback culture is a disguise, a top-down approach is dominating everywhere. Unclear reading of procedures by the Quality Dep and unfair evaluations of agents. Seniors are not competent and confuse bugs with A/B tests. Outdated internal software. Problems of Berlin offices: The war between the management and the Works Council created a hostile and unhealthy atmosphere in the office. The company lay off over 300 employees in Berlin, giving to some teams a very short notice (1 month before the end of the fixed-term contract). All this led to the power abuse, disrespectful treatment of employees, double standards and lack of transparency for other offices of B.com. All events in Berlin offices were muted in official communication channels.

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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
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Cons

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