Booking.com

Food, juices, nice toilets, nice office, some nice people. I can't think of anything else nice to put here, just filling in for the 20 word minimum requirement.

Hotel Ninjas was acquired by B.com, and after 7 months the company was shut down, mainly because they bought Buuteeq, a US company, that had a similar product. It has a lot to do with politics also.

The Hotel Ninjas team was the best team of people I have ever worked with; they could have built any product with very high standards. But B.com, instead of reusing the team, fired them, only to hire some of them back afterwards.

B.com sells itself as a startup spirit company, but in practice, it is not. It is a massive company that is only driven by profits and bullying.

From a technical point of view, the technology is not appealing. The core of the system is written in Perl and MySQL for persistence. The codebase is massive, and the only way they can keep it going is by hiring gurus from the Perl and MySQL communities.

I was not impressed by what I saw and by how we were treated.

Be frank.