WAS awesome... - Senior Manager Booking.com Employee Review

Used to have great working culture and an awesome formula for success. Now mainly focusing in meeting targets and making HQ and shareholders happy and sacrificing high contributing long term employees in the progress. Kee Koolen is the best Booking.com CEO do far. Former CMO Arthur is highly admirable too. After they both left, the company is lacks vision and most of the new leadership are just capitalist executives and former management consultants with no passion for the travel business, interested only in filling up their own pockets. Used to have a bottom up problem solving approach. Hired Darren Houston and he started introducing top down way of doing things. Used to empower employees. Used to focus more on developing employees. Used to be a warm and friendly place to work. Senior leadership is not interested in identifying problems and addressing them. They just want to keep HQ happy and meet targets.