Pros: 1. A very diverse organization to work for, you will have tons of learnings and personal growth. 2. Good food. 3. Depending on the team and work, you can explore different projects and extend your work scope depending on your bandwidth. 4. Lots of good and interesting projects.

Cons: 1. Flat team structures provide fewer opportunities to learn, and you are mostly on your own. 2. Legacy codebase. 3. Career growth may be a little slow.

Pros: Some good colleagues. The office location and parties are good. Work-life balance is taken well, and they communicate a lot with people.

Cons: The code is very messy, as bad as you can imagine. If you try to change some, people can embarrass you. The Perl is the main language, with no structure at all. You can push the code whenever you want. Retaliation from the management side. The directors are awful. They do only politics and care about their positions. Be careful of your health and wellbeing. The company pushes so much that people go on burnout leaves.

Pros: Salary is somewhat higher than at the majority of Amsterdam-based companies.

Cons: Booking used to be a fairly comfortable place to work. Unfortunately, it has deteriorated into a politician's playground, which most of the competent workers and managers preferred to leave, some at a financial loss. The new CEO replaced Dutch top managers with his American buddies, turning the company into a typical US-style corporation. If that wasn't bad enough, the expectation of impending layoffs, cancelled promotions, and the virtual impossibility to change teams finished off workers' morale. It's no surprise that Booking keeps hemorrhaging talent at an accelerating pace. If you are thinking of joining Booking right now, think twice. You'll end up working with crazy management and systems that are falling apart, with no one in sight to help.