Not great - Software Engineer Amadeus Employee Review

1.0
3 Nov 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Still some good people in the company. This can be a good place to spend a couple of year, but not to consider for long term career in my opinion. Also consider carefully if you want to live in the region, which is beautiful for sure, but everything is expensive (bar, housing, repair services, and so on) and in some days the traffic is catastrophic. Depending on the division, the tasks, structure of the teams and relationship with management varies a lot, so you can go in a good spot or in a bad one.

Cons

Almost any tool has some kind of issue (software and hardware). Huge frustration and waste of time, no real solution are found in most of the cases. But for sure some tickets and emails get filled for no concrete resolution. Heavily relies on consultants, which are thrown in the project hoping they can cope with it. If not the burder will fall on the staff. Good people are squeezed like lemon, not acknowledged for they good work, and even made feel guilty they do not do enough. If some of them feels pressured to do non paid extra time this is their choice and the manager/company will pretend they do not know. On the other hand there are people spending most of the day on YouyTube or doing their own business, and obviously nobody sees that. Most of team use old technology stacks, that feels legacy and clunky. There are some inequality in the way employees are treated and evaluated (regardless of their real merit) As in all those big company they hide behind process, best practices or whatever policy to find a justification to constantly reduce benefits and ask more results. Collaboration with "offshore" teams (In Turkey, India or some other low cost country) is painful because some whole teams are "in charge" of product or functionality but have nearly zero knowledge on the scope. They are unable to give meaningful answers and keep tossing emails and tickets at each other with useless gibberish (which I suppose looks the correct answer to their manager 😁)

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5.0
2 Dec 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great Company culture and benefits!

Cons

Lots of things going on at once so you need to be able to self manager and balance multiple projects.

3.0
18 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Technology Stack, Learning resources, Benefits

Cons

Over management, Very difficult to get things done due to complex and overbearing change control procedure and tools. This was one of the best jobs in the world about 7 years ago. It was very stable and the teams were very stable and cohesive. The last few years it has become another corporate nightmare. Too many managers, too much talk about work and not enough time to work. Every year they just up and change things up, right when we almost adapted and overcame the change they made last year. None of the changes are for the good of the product or the way we work. All the changes are made to the benefit of management, how they report numbers and costs, or to reflect some shift in messaging which only works and looks good on paper, but is actually a negative and creates strife, confusion and poorly motivated and un-cohesive teams. Its a shame because it was the exact opposite when I started there. In the last few years they had us train full time offshore employees in lesser developed countries to do our jobs. In Q3 2025 they laid off 1500 senior positions in North America, Canada and Europe and all new job postings were for offshore locations. I saw them kill very successful products that were very profitable and kept customers under our umbrella. They overspent on the move to the cloud, missing forecasts horribly, against the advise of senior architects and engineers. In the end, the products are no better, less stable (despite fabbed up KPI's) and the people who built and supported them from the inception have all been let go, or encouraged to take a RIF. Theres people in a foreign country who have no idea how the end users of the products need them to work and be supported. So when once you used to get a live person when you called, now you get the same AI phone tree as Verizon, and when you finally get a person on the line, its not likely they will solve your issue as quickly as they once did. Sadly, they are not unique and are just part of the giant race to the bottom. If you are new to the corporate workforce, go ahead and apply. You will learn a lot, and you will be well prepared for what the corporate life will throw at you during your career. If youre mid or late career, run, dont walk.

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