Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Skyscanner with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 80% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Scientist roles take an average of 34 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Skyscanner overall takes an average of 35 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Skyscanner as a Data Scientist according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Presentation: 13%
Skills test: 13%
One on one interview: 13%
Group panel interview: 13%
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I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Skyscanner in Jul 2019
Interview
Very slow hiring process. I enjoyed interviews though - employees are generally very happy with the company and work there for 2+ years (at least the ones that interviewed me). There were two cultural interviews with questions like 'Have you ever being in a situation when..', and 3 technical interviews - 2 case studies and one where I talked about technical details of one of the projects I was working on.
The process is very well structured but the cultural interview felt way more demanding than the coding rounds. Was asked to design a flight ranking system in the systems design interview, was asked a lot about experiment design in the depth of expertise round.
Questions received from the cultural interview portion:
— interview dynamics intro —
What are the company values?
A time when you worked with someone with a different working style than yours, how did you work through that
A time when you had a disagreement with someone, what would you do differently
How did you make a process simpler and how did you think it through and identify points to standardize/simplify, who did you communicate with during this process
A time when you made a decision with the customer in mind
What is something that you are looking for in your next role
Tell me about a time when you had to dive deep into learning something new at a project.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you make an AB experiment stop earlier than planned? (Aiming for alpha spending function through group sequential testing).
Interesting interview, many rounds and a huge time commitnent.
I went through all rounds without interviewing/getting a chance to talk to anyone from the prospective team.
The technical rounds was a bit dated.
Very relaxed, respectful and easy going.
The interviewer was very nice and she just wanted to see how much I know but most importantly what I would do if I had to figure out sth by myself.