Amadeus reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(4,380 total reviews)
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Luis Maroto

80% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Amadeus has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,380 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Amadeus employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Nov 2, 2015

A company of losers

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Pros

A very stable job. Climate is fine.

Cons

It's a company of losers. I can't say it otherwise, the mediocrity of people working here is staggering. They are not only crappy engineers, if they are even engineers at all, but they even totally lack ambition and drive. Completely uncompetitive people holding onto their positions while gossipping about coworkers and pretending to be important, doing the same thing over and over again, every day, since they came here. Career? What's that? You can be lucky if after 7 years you get one level up or at least to a different country. "Employee mobility" hahaha, what a joke. The company is literally filled with people working here for 15+ years! Developers' salary is ok for new grads, but it doesn't grow at all, except for inflation adjustments, so after 3 years it's below average. Your best choice is to get a job elsewhere, because in Amadeus you'll never get a raise or a promotion. Unless you have a diploma from a top university. Then it's enough to know how to sign yourself, and they'll make you a senior manager. It's preposterous. Meritocracy? Never heard of it. Job is otherwise very boring, and codebase and documentation are a total mess.

1.0
Dec 25, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Working for more than a year at Bangalore Office, Here is my Genuine inputs. PROS: 1. Lot of Celebrations & No dress code. 2. Fairly friendly colleagues & Lot of fun on floor. 3. Travel Domain (Airlines mainly - Don't expect Onsite) 4. We started using Outlook :)

Cons

CONS: 1. Extreme Favoritism : While favoritism is common in most companies, in my 4+ years of work experience, only here have I seen where your success and chances of getting ahead are directly dependent on how much your manager likes you. Hard Working Souls, Do not expect any hike from the management. The people who are close to the managers will have a great hike also with a great designation. Need Hike - Be Close to Managers, You will get it :) 2. Onsite: If you have luck and good relation with management then you will get Onsite opportunities. 3. Low compensation: The compensation is really low and well below market standards. The hikes are also pathetic. (Old employees getting more benefits is what I've felt) 4. No effort to maintain staff : There is no effort from the management staff to retain people. People are leaving in large numbers and there is no effort being made to retain them. As a result a lot of good people have left in the last Couple of months. 5. Policies : The company has no defined policies and the lack of defined policies and processes results in a lot of chaos making it very hard for people to work. 6. Process: There should be a separate Testing Process. 7. IJP: People should be given an opportunities to switch internally. 8. Communication: Kindly educate Managers about the importance of Communication, Manager should call for regular discussions. 9. Learning: No good Learning Curve. 10. Gym: No In-house Gym (We know the space crunch, but its good to have our own gym) 11. WFH: No WFH option. 12. Mission Vision: No proper Mission Vision, 13. Career: Not a place to work for long term. (I've heard this statement from many on the floor) 14. Work Environment: Influence based environment 15. Attrition: It claims to have lowest attrition in industry, but we all Doubt it.

1.0
Oct 5, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Situated in Sophia - Antipolis, you will work in a beautiful and well maintained landscape. Generally speaking its a quite relaxing atmosphere, meaning that you are not pressured to start at 09:00, I've seen people starting as late as 10:30! There is an onsite restaurant which adds up to the convenience of not having to travel to eat somewhere else. You will get to meet people from many countries. Like in any other social environment there are interesting people and backstabbers. Watch out for the latter, cos they seem to be congregated in Amadeus more than in other larger enterprises.

Cons

I worked at Les Templiers and throughout my time there, I've seen almost all departments, except from Hotel, however I had a few good colleagues there where we could share our experiences. It was a frustrating experience for me since I was moved from one team to another every 6 months because of "budget cuts", meaning that I was a newcomer several times there. The good aspect I suppose is that in the end I knew almost everyone in Les Templiers since I worked with so many people...ok thats a good thing, not Cons :) Projects: Hmm... not particularly interesting (at least for me I have 10 years of experience and worked with interesting domains), especially when you deal with the most terrible and spaghetti code of 50,000 lines contained in each class. People seem that they have absolutely no clue about design patterns and once when I presented a factory pattern, they looked at me as if If I committed a crime... They asked me "what is the point of creating a new small class which only has a few methods?". "We don't create new classes here just for the sake of creating them and we definitely don't allow developers to create pointers!"...What? you are using C++ and its not allowed to create pointers? What is the point of using C++ then? Later on I found out that the framework they created was just a horrible piece of junk that even the most senior Amadeus staff developers hated it !! Higher management has lately invented the word Agile Scrum and they think that the technical-debt will disappear magically. I don't blame them. They are fashion victims. If you ask any decent developer will tell you in the end that it will still be a "PTR-Driven developement". I stole this term from a really good engineer that I worked and he was recently fired by his senior manager (its she, in fact, will call here Madame "She" for the time-being)...will get into that senior manager problem a bit further.. Attitude: There is a serious bad attitude there. Very very serious.. It basically maintains a toxic environment and the opposite. After a while you become toxic as well. You become unsociable, unhelpful an all the un...s. The problem starts from the head. The Senior is toxic enough to create a clique of toxic trusted team leads who will do whatever it takes to maintain psychological fear, which is hidden behind their friendly faces. The team leads will have 2-3 trusted staff devs, some of them have a big nose about themselves and their skills. <= These are the ones you need to watch out for ..be very-very careful. Backstabbers, evil and manager-wannabees, boot-lickers and they adore telling you off for every single thing. A small story now, I'd like to share :).... One day in the department of Senior "She" in Les Templiers, the team leader asked me for a personal meeting. He announced to me that unfortunately because of budget cuts I had to be transferred internally to another team within the same department. Don't worry he said.. its only because of cuts Madam "She" is doing. **I am personally very happy about your performance**. So, I went off to my 3rd new team, along with another fine engineer. Two months passed and my mission was terminated again for budget cuts and performance issues.. When the opinion of the team lead was asked again by the senior ... he back stabbed and lied that there was indeed a performance issue. So careful. Backstabbers are everywhere there. Senior managers: In the department of "She" I think that there is already a sense of dictatorship. She actually dictates and there is a general feeling that she hates foreigners as well.

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