Kayak carries a Seen Grade of 66/100, with an average wait of about 18 days to hear back and a 30% ghost rate. Here's what applicants report.
KAYAK (online-travel metasearch, Boston; confirmed corporate roles including KAYAK-for-Business, ML Ops and staff engineering) runs a well-documented, structured hiring loop: recruiter screen, coding take-home, a 60-minute technical with a lead, then a two-developer onsite whiteboard. Aggregates across ~113 interviews: ~40% positive, difficulty ~2.9, ~19 days to hire. Sentiment is mixed - some praise the structure, others report a volatile, dismissive recruiter. Medium confidence. Reported average time to first response is about 18 days. Applicants report roughly 4 interview round(s).
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