"0 innovation, 0 carrier" - Software Developer Amadeus Employee Review

1.0
Jul 12, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

- no strict working hours - enough time for your personal "stuff". ( I had a french kid by my side watching youtube 6 hours per day). - Sophia Antipolis is a very nice place (if you have a car!). - Full of young nice people! - Good payment. - Is the french riviera!!!!! - Good place for having first slots filled on my CV (pls don't stay). - Good people for normal french people who want to live on a nice calm place inside a brain-dead stable job.

Cons

-Terrible commutation, more than 1 hour to get home on public transports. -Managers aren't real managers, and decision making is made by clowns. -Dev infrastructure is the worst kind. 0 Design patterns or architecture. Spaghetti code. No documentation. No functional knowledge. Archaic methodologies and sloooooow procedures. - No real growth in carriers. - They see contractors as objects, not human resources. - Elitism. - The English spoken by several higher ups (taking appart the french accent issue) is kinder-garden level like. - A terrible choice for any transport company. - nice vacations

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5.0
May 22, 2026
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Pros

Benefits are amazing as well as the team.

Cons

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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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