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Comment by dudeinjapan | Hacker News Reader

Any Booking.com engineers reading this are welcome to apply to join us a TableCheck (https://www.tablecheck.com/en/company/jobs/)

We see Booking.com's online travel agent ("OTA") model as fundamentally predatory/parasitic to hospitality operators. Our business is designed to cut-out of the likes of Booking.com and other middlemen--let the operators own the guest data and build direct relationship with their guests.

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They're not firing thousands of engineers. They're transferring most of their thousands of call centre workers to a different company. Are you hiring lots of call center workers?

Q. to all you off the cuff commenters: did you even realise that they had thousands of call centre workers?

I'm putting out this message to Booking.com engineers/PMs/etc. who have wisened up to their employer's shenanigans. We aren't in the call center business so don't have any openings there (and yes, was aware of their call center ops, have called myself in the past.)

Booking.com employees are bound by non-compete clauses so you will never get anyone directly from Booking.com in your company.

Non-compete clauses aren't always enforceable; they have to be "reasonable". That means that the employer must be imposing the clause in furtherance of a "legitimate business interest". You can't use these clauses as simply a way to bully disgruntled staff.

All the more reason to ditch Booking.com

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