Amadeus reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(4,396 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 4,396 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 Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Jun 10, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

+ Not very demanding, steady job. + Very relaxed atmosphere (and I mean _very_), a typical day of a typical Amadeus developer: 9:30 - arrival to work 10:00 - 10:15 - coffee break 12:00 - 13:30 - lunch 13:30 - 14:00 - coffee break 16:00 - 16:15 - coffee break 18:00 - go home + Great work/life balance. + Really sunny area. + Mostly friendly people.

Cons

- Not a very demanding job - it's not a place for achievers and dynamic people. - Just like at any other mediocre big company - politics, many small-minded people. - Most are not exactly experts on coding or management. - Severe lack of management and people skills on all levels - confrontation avoidance, lack of communication, occasional yelling. - People trash talk each other behind their backs and form cliques, management plays along. - Very very slow career progression or none at all. - For many people Amadeus is the only employer that they ever had. - Core technology is quite oldish and in-house, and over-all not very exciting. - Typical work distribution: 45% - bug investigation 45% - meetings about specifications and work coordination with other teams 10% - actual coding - Serious problems with transportation in general; rush hours in Sophia are the really bad. - All around it's nothing but villages and small towns (!!!). - Salaries for developers are quite low. - Everything takes ages. - Many people, often straight from universities, have far more confidence than knowledge - it's like working in Idiocracy. - Distrust, backstabbing, slander and fakeness are more common than at any company that I worked ever before.

1.0
Feb 9, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Modern building in Nice Perfect job if you have no expectations at all for your professional career.

Cons

To work for Amadeus it is the best way to get your career stucked. There is no evolution at all. The job and tasks you do in a daily basis are really repetitive and boring, not being a challenge at all. Anyone could do this job after a few days. Everything is based on procedures, procedures and more procedures that do not let space to the creativity, being impossible ot add value. The technologies that are used exist only in Amadeus, so it is difficult to show this experience to other companies when you try to look for a new position. No expectations when you try to get hired by Amadeus, if you are contractor. The three months period you have once you demission, makes really difficult to look for another job. People really demotivated.

2.0
Dec 15, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

+ Interesting industry in general + Solid company and a secure job + Great benefits + Good starting salary for the area (not so good compared to other cities in Europe though) + International environment & colleagues from everywhere + Relaxed approach to work What matters is that you're in the office at the right time, not the work you do + Region Beautiful nature and close to the beach and to ski stations during winter

Cons

- Red tape & heavy politics (a large company-effect) - Strong hierarchy within the company, almost no chance of getting your voice heard if you're 'on the floor' - "We don't have budget for that" is a common sentence - Lots of technical debt, quick fixes that should've been remade and maintenance issues - Lack of innovation - Low raise, regardless of your work (2% +/- 1% a year) - No career opportunities within the company unless you're French/studied at a French university This is an open secret - Not very ambitious people - A lot of jealousy and gossiping - Too big layer of mid-management consisting of people with opinions who worked within the company for a long time - Re-organisations once a year Both small and big ones

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