Great fast paced company - Director of Engineering KAYAK Employee Review

5.0
Oct 24, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Smart proactive people. Very fast moving and data driven company. You can have a lot of control over the product and technical decisions. A lot of room to grow from tech and biz sides.

Cons

If you don't have experience working in a startup it might be hard to adjust to the "large startup" experience. You need to be very autonomous, self driven and motivated to succeed.

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5.0
Jan 27, 2026
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Pros

Great people and interesting industry to be in

Cons

Sometimes too focused on the data and not the human experience.

4.0
Nov 24, 2025
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Pros

Great benefits: Healthcare had great coverage and affordable monthly payments. I also really appreciated the work-from-wherever policy as well as all the office snacks. Fantastic people: I genuinely loved the people I worked with—they made me feel like I belonged and was appreciated. My manager worked to build me up, something that can't be said for a lot of places. Travel perks: The ability to travel for work made this experience incredibly rewarding.

Cons

Slow mobility: Trying to get promoted felt like a moving goalpost—the expectations changed every six months and made it nearly impossible to get to the next step. Even then, the business was stingy about who gets promoted, which was incredibly discouraging after years of trying to prove myself.

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