Work there if you like bureaucracy, processes, and office politics
Work there if you like bureaucracy, processes, and office politics
- Fancy office
- Good salary
- Canteen
- Recognized name
Since 2022, on-call is mandatory and not revocable if agreed.
Scrum is used to take autonomy out of the hands of engineers. The company is run by product people.
Work environment is competitive, toxic, and stressful. Engineers work against each other in order to look good and be promoted, stealing work from team members and masking this as a "helpful attitude".
It's a male-dominated company. Engineering is 95% guys.
Tech is not a priority: the main software is made of early 2000s PHP and JSPs.
Processes and bureaucracy make it difficult to see the end of tasks.
It's much more important to publicize your work than to actually do work.
Projects get spawned and canceled every quarter.
Career progress is driven by how much your work is seen across the company.
Bonus is driven by metrics that everyone tries to maximize, causing a lack of coherence across teams.
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Online assessment with four questions on HackerRank. I was contacted by HR and then followed an online screening, where I was given an assessment to finish in a few days. The HR later emailed that the score was not enough to proceed to the next rou
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NetherlandsJuly 4, 20253 LeetCode questions on HackerRank Initial interview with recruiter Live coding interview with two engineers Architecture design interview with two engineers If everything goes well, you will finally receive an offer.
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IndiaApril 28, 2025Online assessment with four questions on HackerRank. I was contacted by HR and then followed an online screening, where I was given an assessment to finish in a few days. The HR later emailed that the score was not enough to proceed to the next rou
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Amsterdam, NetherlandsMarch 1, 2025Firstly, two interviews with a recruiter and then a hiring manager. Neither seemed 'failable'; it was just to get to know one another. Thereafter, there was a 90-minute technical interview with two developers from the Booking team.
