Engineer foreigner = third class employee - Software Engineer Amadeus Employee Review

2.0
Dec 23, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It's hard to get fired

Cons

In the engineering department, Amadeus has 3 classes of people: 1) Grande Ecole graduates 2) other French 3) foreigners. The first group gets promoted rapidly, the second group gets promoted after 5+ years at the company, the last group never gets promoted and is constantly pushed to learn French despite Amadeus being a multinational company with English as a official working language. Foreigners are hired only as foot soldiers doing all the 'dirty' work for the French elite. In engineering there's no career, at most it's possible to become a team leader (if you're French). Engineers are not transferred abroad either. Salary doesn't grow. All tools and codebase are a mess and broken. It's the same crap over and over again. Contractors behave like employees, don't expect any respect from them just because you're staff.

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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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