Pros
- Good company to start working for, shows the challenges that a big company is facing - Depending on the team, there are really interesting projects - Very international teams and easy to move in another site - Interesting and challenging business - Good cafeteria - Nice view on the Côte d'Azur from the buildings (especially in Bel Air)
Cons
- Only big employer on the Côte d'Azur, as a consequence it is the only company the employees were working for and they never see that happens in other companies - Too many in-house technologies giving you technical skills useless outside of Amadeus - Too many "political" projects coming from top management, leads to frustration since it doesn't make sense technically - Too many and too complex procedures to promote a single line change into production - Focused on delivering things faster (short term vision) than improving the quality of the deliveries, sometimes we create technical debt to deliver faster but this one is never took into account by the management who prefers to pay for maintenance afterwards - Operations have a old-school way of managing the datacenter leading developers to be frustrated when they committed to deliver something (this is the developer's point of view, but I think the root cause comes from a very bad communication between dev, ops and bad tools) - most of the time, the managers and the top management are former developers, they became manager because of the higher pay, not because they wanted to take care of a team - Watergile projects, sometimes you don't even know who is the customer