Booking.com reviews

Booking.com is the type of company that tries to trick you into loving your job. A handful of bumbling idiots fall for it and would practically give their lives for B.com. The rest of us are attuned to their games and are miserable drones whose souls exit their bodies the moment we step through the door each morning. I was a robot for 8 hours a day because I was assigned menial tasks that required zero thinking and attended pointless/endless meetings about equally worthless crap. I once attended a meeting about meetings. No lie. If one of the Kool-Aid drinking managers doesn't like you or recognizes that you are not as brainwashed as they are, you will not advance. You will continue to do the same meaningless busy work day-in and day-out. If the managers do not personally like you and invite you to Sunday brunch or SoulCycle, you will not advance and you will most likely be driven out of the company by their cold-shoulder, high school pettiness. If you have any ounce of creativity in your noodle, DO NOT accept a job as a Content Editor. There is minimal writing involved. You proofread text prepared by a robot and make sales calls soliciting photos from hoteliers.

Booking.com has one heck of a scam going. They make more money than all their competitors combined, yet pay their employees 20-30% less than every other OTA. I think they figure that they can just keep hiring eager young people, wine and dine them until they realize they're being duped and then just go find more young people. You are and will always be expendable to Booking.com, just know that. The cycle can stop with you...seriously, do not take this job. A huge percentage of the managers are not only kind of crummy, but aggressively awful. The company grew so fast, that many of the managers earned their positions simply because they've worked with the company the longest; which in many cases is just three years. Booking.com always reminded me of an Oreo with a garbage filled center. On the one side, you have this brilliant visionary CEO. On the other side you have these bright entry level employees who are really earnest, nice people. Sandwiched in the middle is just this layer of really terrible people with atrocious management skills. If the Booking.com middle management had an Instagram account it would consist of mirror selfies, pictures of food and annoying hashtags. Managers are constantly making decisions that make you scratch your head. At first, you'll just shrug it off: "I guess that's how they want to run their business." Then you'll start to ask yourself, "Is this how things work at other companies? It can't be." Then you'll get upset, "Not only is this a poor business decision, but it also defies human logic!" Employees, at least in our office, walked around in a constant state of depression and outrage. Eventually you feel so surrounded by immaturity and incompetence you resign to your desk and work really hard with your headphones in just so that time passes faster. Maybe they're onto something there. Things are especially bad if you're a Content Editor. Did you go to school to write? Do you enjoy writing? I bet you like being creative too. Well, despite the job title, a Content Editor doesn't get to do any of those things. Isn't that fun? I have no idea why they keep hiring English majors for a job that no longer requires writing. The closest you get to "writing" will be checking thousands of robot generated texts for grammar. What great experience! As the job exists today, you'll spend most of your time calling or emailing hotels to have them send in photos. I hope you like sales, because that's what this gig basically is now. If you're an English major and you wanted to put your education to some use, run! Run as fast as you can from Booking.com. All I can tell you is what I experienced and that is working at Booking.com was a living nightmare. If you still want to work there after all that, well...