KAYAK reviews

4.4

88% would recommend to a friend

(401 total reviews)
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100% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

KAYAK has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 401 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The KAYAK employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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401 reviews
1.0
Mar 3, 2019

Good only for a short time, bad management leads nowhere

Anonymous employee
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Business Outlook

Pros

Pretty international vibe with offices in Europe, Asia, and US. If you're lucky enough to work in a project that involves different teams, you might travel a lot for business. Great opportunity to learn new things using the annual tuition fee. Decent work-life balance.

Cons

The only what KAYAK cares about is money. That's why they acquire smaller companies, destroy their product and brand and fire hundreds of people. The corporate culture is very American and very fake, with several layers of approvals for each public communication. Internal tools and technologies are lame and useless. None of the top management resigned or took responsibility for bad performance - and that's a standard in KAYAK because they would prefer to fire dozens of talented people instead of letting go inefficient, inexperienced managers and so-called VPs who are mostly pretending of doing something important.

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KAYAK Response
7y
Thanks for the feedback. I am glad to hear you appreciate our diverse employees, work-life balance, and tuition reimbursement. Of course, I am sorry to hear your feeling that KAYAK only cares about money. To be a successful business we need happy employees who enjoy what they do. I would really value the opportunity to discuss your feedback in more detail. Please reach out to me when you can. That way we can work on addressing your concerns.
5.0
Feb 20, 2019

Great

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

freedom, great culture, great offices

Cons

PC, politics over data

5.0
Jan 24, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Not often fire under your butt Good compensation, yearly raises, RSUs Great design team Lots of building and rebuilding going on

Cons

Not often fire under your butt Sometimes felt like maintenance mode which is not always enjoyable 12 year old company, pretty large / old codebase

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