On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Shmuel Fomberg <[email protected]>wrote:
Hi Shmuel, Though I do get payed by Booking.com (and using its resources for writing this post too :)), this is a personal (!) reply I felt the need to post to provide some insight from someone who's actually working for this company. Yikes! > And I almost took a job with them... > > Sorry that you feel this way, but I suggest you don't jump into conclusions based on a post from one anonymous source where you can easily get feedback from (many) people (with names) who work for the company (so you can at least be sure about that) about their own experience. I bet you will find that a lot of employees (junior / mid-level / senior and beyond even that) at Booking.com describe a (very) different experience. > It is true what he says about them dealing with all the developer as > junior. I interview with them, and got an offer. After much checking and > calculation, I found out that I probably won't be able to save money, and > the salary is, well, as for junior position. > > Booking.com is hiring developers (yes, we are still growing rapidly, and therefore need more people) with different levels of experience and knowledge, so naturally offers vary per person based on many different factors. Based on my personal experience, I think your conclusions may be wrong (I bet there are so many factors that need to be taken into account in order to make such calculation properly...). There are also other aspects to work-life in Booking.com such as awesome social experience (the company is full of expats coming from many different countries forming great and unique social life in and out of the office, which I'll cherish forever), stress-free environment and life (in the Netherlands) compared to Israel, the excitement of being part of something as big as Booking.com in the market it plays in, which also keeps on growing; and, of course, the professional aspect (just look at the next comment). The message that I got from that was: we don't care how good you are in > programming > I believe your conclusion is wrong, simply because: Yves Orton, Abigail, Rafaël Garcia-Suarez, Liz Mattijsen (until recently) and the list goes on and on (and on)... I like refactoring and improving things. probably would not have survived > there for long. > Personal preference, that's perfectly fine. Your assumption that we don't work on improving things is simply wrong. Though we may have slightly different definitions of 'improving' and of 'things' (this is a long discussion that I won't go into here), I can just say that as someone who identifies with the constant need to 'improve things' (and a pedantic one as well) my work here keeps me very much satisfied professionally and I find the way to channel this need into practical and productive use. If you want to know more, feel free to contact me personally. (hell, if you get to visit Amsterdam - come have a beer with me, I'll tell you even more) Cheers, Micha Nasriachi Booking.com
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