Does KAYAK pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, KAYAK employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.2 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at KAYAK. This rating has improved by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at KAYAK?

89% of KAYAK employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated KAYAK 4.4 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.4 for culture and values and 4.2 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at KAYAK?

Software Engineer (44) , Manager (12) , Senior Software Engineer (10) , Account Manager (8) , Director (7) , Product Manager (7) , Campaign Manager (5) , Commercial Team (5) , Data Scientist (5) , Commercial Manager (4) , Engineer (4) , Product Designer (4) , Content Support Specialist (3) , Data Specialist (3) , Designer (3)

What are the pros of working at KAYAK according to real employee reviews?

"Great people and interesting industry to be in" ((in 55 reviews)); "Good benefits for permanent employees." ((in 34 reviews)); "Great people and team to work with." ((in 27 reviews)); "Work life Balance is good" ((in 24 reviews)); "Great office and location in Cambridge." ((in 19 reviews))

What are the cons of working at KAYAK according to real employee reviews?

"poor management, lack of direction" ((in 15 reviews)); "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" ((in 12 reviews)); "A lot of design decisions still come from senior leadership rather looking into real user problems" ((in 10 reviews)); "Zero communication between departments, throw over the fence attitude." ((in 9 reviews)); "Upper management in North America are cliquey, racist and only hire within their own ethnicity" ((in 8 reviews))

What are employees saying about KAYAK layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about KAYAK layoffs and their outlook for job security at KAYAK in 2026.

KAYAK reviews

4.4

89% would recommend to a friend

(405 total reviews)

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100% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

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KAYAK has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 405 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 Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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405 reviews

1.0

Nov 20, 2019

Horrible engineering culture

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- Good work life balance

Cons

- No drive / boldness to innovate old monolite architecture - Making money is more important than user experience - Build + start time of frontend solution takes about 30 minutes - Managed by american employees, european knowledge gets discarded - No clear vision on how product should define itself within the next years - Tech teams don't work together, everyones is working for themselfes. They even compete silently against each other introducing different tech stacks. - Releasing fast instead of quality.

1.0

Oct 18, 2019

Kayak is destroying OpenTable

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

I work for OpenTable which means I work for Kayak now.

Cons

Kayak took over OpenTable and is slowly dissolving OpenTable.

2.0

May 3, 2019

No commitment to staff

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Free lunch, gym, beautiful offices

Cons

Lame office culture. No energy or commitment to the staff or any long term product thinking. Massive layoffs made all the time. Don't get too comfortable,

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