Booking.com
Our journey
From a small Dutch startup to one of the world’s leading digital travel companies. At Booking.com, we’re not just a platform for booking accommodation – we’re the technology that makes travel easier. We’re the thrill of the first night in a new place. The excitement of the next morning. The friends you make. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the food you sample. We make it easier for everyone to experience the world.
Mission: Make it easier for everyone to experience the world
Our business by the numbers:
- 1000+ Experiments taking place at any given time
- 150+ Nationalities represented
- 140 Offices in 70 countries
- 172,000 Volunteer hours donated
- 2020 the year our office became carbon neutral
- 150,000+ Destinations included in over 28 million listings
Diversity and Inclusion
We filter places, not people.
We help people all over the world find and book their dream trips, filtering their search to match their personal needs. That means it’s essential for our workforce internally to reflect the diversity that exists on our platform, and for us to cultivate a diverse environment where people feel they belong and can contribute to our shared success. Learn more.
Benefits at Booking.com
We have a Total Reward Philosophy. This is not only about financial compensation, but about other benefits too. Aimed to make it easier for you to experience all that life has to offer – all the messy, beautiful, and joyful bits – on your terms. So you can focus on what really matters.
We offer competitive compensation as well as thoughtful, valuable, and even fun benefits. We want to promote your health and wellbeing, protect you from financial risks, support you and your family through major life events, and encourage you to experience the world.
At Booking.com, we’re constantly growing and we want to provide resources to help grow your career. Investment in career development is core to our approach for fostering a culture of continuous learning. Worldwide, benefits include:
Health, wellbeing & community
- A great, brand new office in the heart of Manchester
- Free breakfast and lunch
- Free access to Headspace for you and your loved ones
- Global Employee Assistance Program
- Booking Cares – 2 days per year to volunteer
Financial benefits
- Life insurance (location specific)
- Referral bonus
- Employer contribution pension
Leave and time off
- Annual paid time off – 25 days’ paid holiday plus bank holidays (rising to 28 days after 3 years of service) *for full time employees*
- Parental leave – 22 weeks
- Grandparent leave – 10 days
- Care leave – 10 days
- Bereavement leave – up to 4 weeks
- Anniversary leave
Hybrid working and mobility
We aim to empower our employees to do their best work, whether in the office or at home, as well as 20 days per year to work from abroad with our Work from Abroad benefit (subject to terms & conditions).
Experience the world
At Booking.com, we want to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.
This includes our own employees who enjoy great discounts and wallet credits on accommodation, car rentals and more.
Others
- Booking connects events and parties
Learn more about our benefits.
What does hybrid working mean at Booking.com?
We know there’s no one-size fits all approach to how teams and individuals collaborate. When it comes to where our team members work in order to be productive and effective, we trust that they know best. You ‘ll make team agreements when you ‘ll connect together in the office. There are some exceptions to this based on the critical nature of the role. Read more.
Case study
Olivia McEvoy, the Global Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Booking.com, spoke to myGwork about her remarkable journey as a DEI practitioner and her insights on creating a workplace where everyone can be wholly themselves.
Read more here.
Awards
5 questions with…Beyza Han-Tuncez
Can you share a little bit about what your role as a UX Researcher entails?
As a UX researcher, I study anything that is related to how people interact with our website or app. It can be anything from their motivations for choosing Booking.com to how they navigate the Booking.com site effectively. In short, I amplify our users’ voices to make it easier for them to book their next dream holiday.
As someone who used to work in higher education and made the switch to technology, what advice would you give to someone who is considering a career in tech?
I have mentored many people who have switched careers in their lives and realised that they were more focused on what they lacked rather than what they have. So, I would strongly advise people to focus on their transferable skills, specifically, what makes them a unique candidate and tell that story. Stories mark our identity, so don’t be afraid to tell your story of how you got to where you are in order to help make that career change.
What is one of your favourite things about our Manchester campus?
The food! I am someone who does not really try new things, but our restaurant and talented chefs present a new dish every day so I get to enjoy world cuisine without leaving the office.
From skier to scuba diver, chemist to Solutions Engineer in FinTech
Change and discovery define both Mandy’s passions and her career. Although she’s from the (famously flat) Netherlands, she used to love skiing each winter. But then she found that her real happy place is actually somewhere warm, with clear seas and great diving. Meeting a rare giant sunfish, rather than a blizzard. She made an equally dramatic swerve in her career. From a master’s degree in Chemistry to a Solutions Engineer. Talk about adaptable!
Mandy designs solutions to make sure our customers have the smoothest payment experiences, wherever they are. It’s an ever-evolving challenge, requiring quick thinking and agility. (Qualities she has in spades.)
Mandy has been working as a Solution Engineer at Booking.com since 2021. After spending several years as a consultant in transaction security, she made the transition to working in-house and took up a solution engineer position with Swedish FinTech company Klarna. With that experience under her belt, she then made the move to Booking.com in order to establish this new role within our growing FinTech department.
From scuba diving
Outside of work, Mandy is a keen scuba diver. “This hobby started off in a funky way,” she explains. “I used to go on an annual ski trip until a small accident on the slopes left me with a torn ligament, so I had to look for another holiday activity – and scuba diving it was!” Mandy says this worked out for the best, since now she can enjoy diving in warm climates rather than spending most of her holidays in colder locations in search of snow. “Being underwater, and hearing nothing but the sound of the bubbles you create as you breathe – it’s addictive!”
While for many people Fridays are usually about looking forward to some time off over the weekend, for Mandy the thrill also comes from looking back at what she’s achieved on her projects in the past five days – and making a plan of attack for the following week. “Fridays make me most excited about my work, because identifying what I need to focus on next week is what makes me tick,” Mandy says. “I’ve learned to really appreciate the progress I’ve made and to see the impact that my work is having on each project as a whole.”
