Pros
There is no pros in this company when it comes to Product Management. If it is your first job in product, and you really don’t have any other options - go for it. Otherwise, take any other option on the market and never look back. Certain people write that Booking is Google for Europe. What?!?
Cons
- they hire and fire Product Managers quicker than certain people change their socks. There are number of cases where they fire product managers without any reason behind and don’t care about the legal consequences. - I’ve been in HR industry for 10+ years but never saw any other company making promises bluntly and not delivering them. There has been cases when new hires (product owners) relocate from distant seas for Booking to discover that everything that Booking promissed is one big lie and the only option they have is to sit quiet or return back to their homeland. - The company is on a moment many people in the product/tech organisation are demotivated by the short term focus, and no innovation behind. - The experimentation culture Booking is famous for doesn’t even follow basic standards, there no training behind and product leaders to drive it forward. - Leadership is non existent, puppets everywhere, people are afraid to question and if they do - they get fired. Forget about promotion or higher salary. - Overall, toxic place to be in. Would not even recommend it to my dearest enemy.
