Priceline.com Reviews

Pros

Priceline.com feels like it’s turning the corner and starting to move forward. It has changed a lot over the past year and I like the direction. Senior management is trying to change the culture to be faster moving and more demanding. It’s hard, but rewarding.

Advice to Management

Keep pushing for growth and be open to testing out of the status quo. Invest where it makes sense. Develop an employee recognition program so that overperforming employees get recognized broadly - that is missing today.

Pros

Great people and great desire to succeed make this a fun place to work.

Advice to Management

Keep on pressing for growth. You are on the right track.

Pros

Friendly, upbeat atmosphere with good, solid people! Sr. Leadership is dedicated and are "good people". The CEO engages people and keeps them in the know with regular all employee CEO updates. He encourages questions and feedback, and stresses that family comes first. Our People & Culture leader has made huge strides with providing a stronger department with a driving force to make solid improvements across the board. The company provides perks such as monthly social gatherings revolving around the holidays, etc. , s huge summer party, huge Christmas party, monthly Bagel Thursdays, etc. And the company just celebrated it's 20th Anniversary with a surprise visit from Shatner! The culture is a positive one where everyone treats everyone with respect, courtesy and dignity. All in all, a fun place to come to work everyday!

Advice to Management

Continue to listen to feedback. Do what it takes to keep talented, driven, innovative and dedicated employees.

Pros

Great company filled with smart, dedicated, and kind people. We take care of each other and our community. And of course, our customers! The lack of bureaucracy and expedient decision making creates an environment where you can contribute quickly and make a significant impact. Titles don't carry the day...ideas do! We work hard, play hard and give hard at Priceline.com. It's a place where I can spread my wings, find purpose and meaning in what I do, and be appreciated for what I bring to the table.

Advice to Management

Start tooting our horn. We're a very humble company...sometimes to a fault. This company is a gem that cares about our employees, our community and our customers. Every day we have a positive impact on all three. We need to tell that story.

Pros

good atmosphere and working conditions

Advice to Management

keep up the team building activities

Pros

Awesome benefits & above average pay. Some smart people and some who say they are smart! Good decent upper management mostly. Nice well kept offices, free gym, fab patios and such. Lots of activities, parties, food and such if you respond to this sort of things. Many good decent people all around!

Advice to Management

3 years = one department =3 directors and 3 VPs ; all with fancy degrees but sad and ineffective people management & organizational skills. HR should get in someone's head to get high quality candidate and, balance degrees and diversity with the right fit. It seems to run on "show and tell" like a kindergarten - how about people with content and experience?

Pros

I have the privilege to work with some of the smartest people in different teams.
Good benefits, but below industry average.
Learned a lot

Advice to Management

I don't think they would listen, but.....

It's a big change from the time I started till the time I end...Things have changed. I went from motivated to frustrated. At first I just thought I would work with great talent, and learn different cool tech, but it got out of control fast. Our hard work is not recognized. As a result, people are leaving at a rate the fastest the company has ever seen.
I can't speak too much about other departments, but in Tech, things are getting out of control.
I don't expect the CTO to know everything about tech, but when he struggles with making basic senses of our vision for development, strategy, or even optimization of our infrastructure, I lost faith after constantly being disappointed. There are projects that lasted more than 2 years that don't even have an adoption rate of more than 5%, and they are STILL debating the fundamental technology architecture.

My job involves working with different teams, and the lack of communications or willingness to cooperate is shocking. I don't imagine people to participate everything with priorities of their own, but as a result, I have seen the most amount of technical debt in my whole career life. It's exhausting, having to constantly fight for what I believe is right. The senior management almost never provides any help after I pledge to them time after time. After seeing people who stood their ground sharing their thoughts being fired one after another, I chose to keep quiet.
Look at the staff you have left, they are 80% of people who have been with the firm more than 10 years, and unwilling to adopt new technologies or refuse to listen to new ideas. After 5 re-organizations in the past 2 years, most of the vital and talented people left, leaving people who don't have working ethics, who bully their employees, and who refuses to listen in charge.

It's a big problem for my mental wellness. I tried to care, but in the end, I don't want to beat the dead horse.

Good luck.

Pros

- Working at a smaller company allows me to have more impact and less bureaucracy
- Much better work/life balance than previous companies where I was responding to email all weekend long. For the most part, people actually go home at a reasonable hour
- Benefits are terrific

Pros

Really great benefits:
401k match per pay period
Different health plans with separate dental and vision options

Flexible work schedule/location- come in late or leave early for an appointment. Work from home if your job allows, as needed

Advice to Management

Find a better way to get good talent! Some of the most recent people that were hired for leadership roles in my department have driven it into the ground. They are bosses/managers but not leaders. Some have stayed for a year or 2 and then left but the turmoil they created remains. They hire friends from previous jobs for open positions so the cycle never ends. Constant turnover impacts employees and the work we are doing. Find good people that will stay long term who know how to lead, grow, and develop their direct reports.

Parties, events, and ugly swag do not make employees happy.

Pros

Smart peers to work with.

Advice to Management

Middle-management - grow a spine and do what is right for the good men and women that work under you. A good leader will have their employees' back and support them.
Upper-management - You should be ashamed of yourselves!
HR - You are useless.