Booking.com

Booking pays decently; you can find few companies paying more, with fewer offering the same work-life balance.

Booking is too chill; you can get that nice paycheck and a good performance rating by working just 2-3 focused hours a day.

Perks are amazing (best office, almost free food, Booking benefits, etc.).

You can easily find time to work on side gigs, your own ideas, or hobbies.

Forget growth. It’s almost impossible, especially with the present culture at Booking.

You can work hard, but that in the best case leads to exceeding expectations.

For promotion, you have to be in a team which the leadership thinks is top priority. Still, there is a long waitlist.

For learning, you must be in some tech-heavy or platforms team; otherwise, it's mostly CRUD operations, observability, and monitoring.

Decision-making is slow. No one talks about innovation. Even hackathons are bad.

Leadership at Booking is bad; most of them are non-technical folks who just understand numbers and know how to talk.