Not very demanding job, but you'll also get nowhere. - Software Development Engineer Amadeus Employee Review

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.

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2.0
Oct 27, 2025
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Pros

- Learning opportunities, every day brought something new to tackle or explore - Decent benefits package that covered the essentials - Competitive salary relative to industry standards

Cons

- Management is aggressively enforcing a hybrid model, even for remote employees, and is rescinding previously agreed upon contracts. There's a glaring lack of strategic vision from leadership. - If you're based in Europe or North America, job security is virtually nonexistent unless you're in upper management. Roles are being shifted to India, Colombia, and the Philippines, with cost-cutting prioritized over talent, experience, or loyalty. - The forced migration to Azure, compounded by poor planning, is draining resources. And employees are paying the price — not just through increased workload, but by being let go in recent layoffs (October '25). With many of the positions eliminated quietly transferred to offshore. - Layoffs are being justified as “market alignment” and financial necessity. Yet at the same time, the company continues to absorb small to medium-sized companies, raising serious questions about transparency, priorities, and long-term stability.

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