Great culture, minimum bureaucracy - Anonymous employee KAYAK Employee Review

5.0
1 Mar 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

*Feels like a flat org structure- can talk to people at every level easily *Very few useless meetings *An actual merit-based promotion structure. A small tech department means there aren't lengthy and formalized promotion tracks, but the upside is that high-performing employees are usually rewarded or promoted faster than the typical annual cadence.

Cons

*The employees that do best here are self-driven and impact-hungry. The flip side is that it is not as rewarding to "coast" or to go with the flow. If you want lots of mentorship, you have to proactively acquire it.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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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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