Pros: The office is great; coworkers are great; compensation is among the best.

Cons: None that I have discovered so far.

Pros: - Super smart colleagues. - Very relaxed work-life balance: you can go home at 17:00 and don't think about work until the next day. - The huge scale to work with. - Challenging technical problems. - Qualified top management which knows what it wants. - Data-driven culture: if you have good data to support the change, you are free to implement it. If you have good reasoning, you can also "sell" your change to the management and make organizational changes. - A lot of things are imperfect but in motion to determine how to make them better, and the company seems to care to make things better. - People are very helpful, and we have lots of amazing communities with people supporting each other and discussing common interests. In Amsterdam, if you want, you can live without having friends outside of work, and you would have a lot of communication with a diverse range of people nonetheless.

Cons: The promotion process is one of the imperfect things that is in motion at the time of writing, which means that you don't know for sure what exactly will be the criteria on the next promotion cycle. However, hard-working people with lots of impact get recognized and promoted regardless of current rules changes, and this only affects someone who is in the grey area and doesn't have a solid case for promotion.

Pros: Booking has extensive physical infrastructure that provides many unique challenges. The services that run need to be able to handle considerable traffic and maintain a high quality of service. The company is distributed around the globe, offering opportunities in many locations.

Cons: The company has changed drastically over the past few years. Many senior members in the technology community, as well as management, have left. The replacements at the management level have significantly changed company culture. The allure of working for a company where anyone could make an impact has given way to a strong top-down leadership model where directions, and oftentimes solutions, are dictated to the employees instead of providing those employees the means to impact decisions.