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
2.0
Apr 24, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The compensation and benefits are good. The coworkers are mostly good people and always happy to help. You're rarely expected to do more work than you're able to at a sustainable rate.

Cons

The nail which sticks up is hammered down. If you want to apply latest tech trends or grow in a tech career, forget about it. The company has grown complacent as the leader in its niche. The tech stack is 10-15 years old and will become a limiting factor for the speed of innovation, yet any suggestion for different ways of doing things is met with "we haven't needed it before, why would we need it now" or "we already had someone look into it and it didn't work". Promotions are meaningless yet difficult to get. They seem to depend on being friends with the right people, or having gone to the right schools. Don't expect managers to be interested in your career growth. People in EU beware: Upper management in the US considers the work done in some of the European offices subpar.

2.0
Jul 2, 2018

Very hierarchical and mgmt don't follow own company values

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

great colleagues Travel to different offices Very diverse

Cons

Awful management No process for reporting No feedback process

1.0
Apr 12, 2018

It all depends on the team you are on!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Business is highly profitable. Beautiful offices. Brand name great on resume. There is not much else to say in this section.

Cons

little thought given to employee development. Being a sub to a giant that is PL, there is too much emphasis on profit over employee growth/well-being . Also, there is an annoying sense of panic over Google Flights taking away market share from them. It all adds up to a throw-others-under the bus culture. If you feel like you must have them on your resume, do it. But if you feel like working in a genuinely collaborative environment, looks else where.

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