Company details

Amsterdam, Netherlands

HEADCOUNT

10000+

ORG TYPE

Corporate

SECTOR

Travel & Hospitality

WEBSITE

https://www.booking.com/

About the company

Booking.com is an online travel company that helps travellers book accommodation, flights, car rentals, attractions, and other trip components. Booking.com also serves hotels and other travel partners through distribution, payments, and partner-facing tools. Booking.com operates at global scale, with large engineering, data, and product teams building search, ranking, marketplace, and payments capabilities. Booking.com is part of Booking Holdings.

Locations and presence

Booking.com is headquartered in Amsterdam, with additional offices across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Booking.com runs a hybrid way of working where teams make “team agreements” for office time, and Booking.com states Booking.com is not a fully remote company.

Palpable Score

72.0

/ 100

Booking.com gives early-career candidates real entry points through Booking.com Compass internships and 12-month graduate programmes, with clear mentoring and onboarding commitments in those pathways. Booking.com also publishes practical hiring guidance and benefits, but pay range visibility is inconsistent and recent restructuring and job cuts add uncertainty around stability and progression timing in some teams.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

16.0

/ 20

The company runs Booking.com Compass programmes that explicitly cover internships and graduate roles, including Software Engineering Interns in Amsterdam and 12-month graduate programmes in Amsterdam, Manchester, and Shanghai.
Booking.com sets specific early-career intake dates and application windows for the Compass programmes, including the Amsterdam software engineering internship start in July 2026 and graduate programme openings in January and February 2026.
The company’s most visible early-career access is concentrated in a small set of structured programmes and locations, rather than broad junior hiring across the full job board.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

14.0

/ 20

The company publishes a recruitment timeline expectation of roughly 3 to 6 weeks and flags when technical tests can extend the process for technical roles.
Booking.com lays out a step-by-step interview flow for Compass candidates, including an application, a technical at-home test, a recruiter phone interview, and an in-person assessment centre day.
The company has mixed candidate-reported interview experiences in public interview reviews, including complaints about case work relevance and interviewer tone, which suggests consistency varies by team and role.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

16.0

/ 20

The company publishes a recruitment timeline expectation of roughly 3 to 6 weeks and flags when technical tests can extend the process for technical roles.
Booking.com lays out a step-by-step interview flow for Compass candidates, including an application, a technical at-home test, a recruiter phone interview, and an in-person assessment centre day.
The company has mixed candidate-reported interview experiences in public interview reviews, including complaints about case work relevance and interviewer tone, which suggests consistency varies by team and role.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

13.0

/ 20

The company publishes a detailed benefits menu that includes 22 weeks of parental leave, working from abroad up to 20 days per year, pension support, and free access to online learning platforms.
Booking.com does not consistently publish salary ranges on public job ads in a way that lets early-career candidates benchmark offers before applying, so applicants often rely on third-party compensation data.
The company has publicly reported restructuring and job cuts in 2024 and 2025, which raises stability risk for early-career hires who need predictability in their first role.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

13.0

/ 20

The company’s large-scale employee review footprint is broadly positive on overall experience and work-life balance, but career opportunities score lower than other dimensions, aligning with slower progression concerns in some reviews.
Booking.com states Compass pathways can “level up” into permanent roles after completion, which is a promising outcome signal, but Booking.com does not publish conversion rates or time-to-promotion for early-career cohorts.
The company’s recent restructuring and job cuts create a mixed outcomes picture where learning support can be strong inside programmes, but longer-term progression and team stability can vary across the organisation.