Avoid at ALL costs - Anonymous employee KAYAK Employee Review

1.0
Mar 28, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Nice snacks and lunches, and that is literally it

Cons

Can only repeat what has been said before, unprofessional, backstabbing, managers with no clue what they’re doing, don’t expect any training to onboard and do your job, don’t ever expect any support or to develop your career. If you’re interested in having a career there please be willing to suck up to everyone, be treated like a piece of sh** and ignored for months until acknowledged and maybe eventually make it into the right group of people to have the right to get pissed all day and don’t do work but be praised. But don’t dare to actually try to do your job and be good and get anything positive from it. It’s just a horrible place to work and really bad for your mental health as well as your career.

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5.0
Jun 29, 2026
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Pros

- Super smart team to learn from and very welcoming people - All voices are heard and ideas can be elevated and tested - Positive environment where many people have been with the company a long time and truly care about its success - Sporadic work travel and offsites - Free lunch in office 2 days a week and bagels, snacks, and drinks all the time - In office gym - Parking commuter benefit

Cons

- Reporting tool is specific to the company and can be a bit of a learning curve to figure out, but again, there are really great people to help you! - Multiple offices throughout the world, where team members are spread across or fully remote, so its rare that the entire team would be in one office together for collaboration - No train commuter benefit to coincide with parking benefit

4.0
Nov 24, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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