Booking.com Amsterdam reviews
Does anyone have experience working at Booking.com in Amsterdam Netherlands? I’m looking for feedback on the company’s Company Culture Work Life Pay Country Lifestyle Quality of employees Booking.com is interviewing me for a PM role.
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Their pay is not competitive with top US tech firms.
Depends what speciality are you?
perl 😅
1) they have found me on hackerrank 2) passed interviews (average hard) and got an offer. But offer was so low, even compared to other companies in amsterdam. I did not accepted that because amsterdam sucks + low salary
Interesting fact, when i was onsite, recruiter told me "budget for this role is xyz" and then i really got that offer :) but it was less than i was decided not take less than XYZ.
How much was your offer? And what role? (asking not to "frame" you, but to understand what do you consider to be "low")
kitchen is pretty good compared to other dutch companies. price of 2e per day is for tax reasons, and that is deducted from paycheck not paid at the spot
If that's only for tax reasons, why it's not 1 euro or less?
Thats the minimum they can ask for it. If it’s cheaper it is a benefit therefore taxable.
I thoroughly enjoy the culture, work life balance is excellent, pay is fair all things considered. Country & Amsterdam, I can’t offer an outsider’s perspective as I’m from here. Colleagues are super nice and most of them quite bright.
I used to work there. Salary is low but so is tax for foreigners (30% ruling) and cost of living. The bonuses have been better than what I have gotten in SV so far.
SV?
Come on man - Silicon Valley.
Not bad TBH, the culture is okay and they pay relatively good salaries. People stay at the company for a bit long time which is a sign that they like it. Amsterdam is good city, but the weather is bad. The only odd thing I see is the quality of developers there, it's a bit low TBH and that's why you may see a lot of crappy code everywhere also the fact that we use Perl and almost only Perl is a con. If you don't care that much about tech then go for it.
Booking is fun for the first two years, then you start noticing things you don't like.
1 year then you start seeing things you don't like. There's no way to unsee..
Things like?
Amsterdam is dope, so either way you should take it.