Booking.com

• A real big-scale internet company.
• Awesome and talented colleagues.
• Startup feeling (even if nowadays it's a bit fading out).
• Freedom/responsibility entrepreneurship-like culture.
• Good bonuses if you succeed and are relevant.
• If you are smart and engaged, you can be very relevant quickly.

• Growth has brought more structure.
• Unexperienced and inconsistent mid-management.
• Employee engagement is decreasing.
• No real career advancement on the technical track.
• Too much showing off; the principle "workhorses, not show ponies" doesn't apply anymore.
• Too much Perl-centric culture.

Stop with the overcaring, kindergarten-style approach to management.

Try promoting and growing the most engaged and talented employees you have, and not only those who want or are able to play the career game and see team-leading as stepping up versus being a strong contributor.

Protect the company culture and make it stay the best place to work in Amsterdam, and not just another big (kind of tech) company.