Fun place to work with lots of cool problems to solve - Anonymous employee KAYAK Employee Review

5.0
Nov 11, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

KAYAK really cares about its employees. Great benefits and vacation policy, lots of outings, weekly lunches and weekly beer hours all of which give us opportunity to know each other outside of work -- and that makes for better working relationships. Very approachable senior management (at least on the tech side, where I work) where nobody has an office. Great office and location in Cambridge. Laser focus on making data-driven decisions. All this attracts great people. Finally, we're working on lots of cool things and business is great! I am pretty far into my career and this is the best job I've had.

Cons

Lots of things going on so hard to get a sense of overall strategy.

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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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