Great culture and place to grow your career - Product Designer KAYAK Employee Review

4.0
Jan 24, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Amazing and smart coworkers who inspire me to be better. Lots of team bonding activities (team lunches, dinners, events) - Lots of opportunities for growth and promotions - Awesome benefits and vacation package, competitive salary - Inclusive and understanding environment

Cons

- Caught between startup and large org where there's not a lot of process so things feel scrappy, but it's not sustainable. There needs to be more process in place for product development - Still in early stages of design maturity. Design is slowly earning its seat at the table. A lot of design decisions still come from senior leadership rather looking into real user problems

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5.0
Jan 27, 2026
Recommend
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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
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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