Red flags from start to finish. The recruitment process is by far the worst I have ever experienced. Three interviews plus an initial recruitment chat, totalling over 3.5 hours over the course of three weeks, is a terrible experience. After interviewing with Skyscanner, I only get the impression that, while it may seem like a prestigious company to work for, this place only comes across as death by committee, lack of direction, and indecisiveness with no one actually leading the processes, information, and “tests” that candidates are presented with. Found they were not relevant to their role. (The “technical challenge” I was presented with was not relevant at all, one plus was I was able to feed that back to the recruiter.) I’ve never experienced such a 180 in my entire working life, where I have felt so excited about applying and interviewing for a company, only to vow never to use their products and services again. For me, the length of the interviews, the sheer number of interviews (3+ for an hour minimum is not acceptable), and the fact that I never once spoke to anyone within the actual team I was applying for is a total disgrace. I can only assume the convoluted interview process leads Skyscanner into an echo chamber, thinking they are getting the best of the best candidates, whereas it actually feels really counter-intuitive from an end-user perspective. You’ll get a very particular type of person who is suited to interviewing really well and speaking about themselves to 4-6 strangers not in the team they are applying for, rather than people who are clearly experienced for the job but who would prefer to speak to people in their team about the role rather than theoretical “challenges.” Don’t ask an interviewee a “technical challenge” related to AWS when you can see none of their past job experience involves this, nor is the job they are applying for relevant to having AWS knowledge. This is either a massive oversight from the team or sheer ignorance from recruitment, more likely where it’s been copy-pasted from a technical role that would have a basis in AWS and added to a totally different tech role because it’s been assumed it’s sort of the same. Skyscanner comes across as total time wasters, and actually, the amount of interviewing you do is a red flag compared to what’s actually delivered during the 3.5+ hours that this took over three weeks. I can’t even begin to make one single recommendation to improve this as it needs to be addressed overall. The only thing I can speak to is that the recruiter themselves was very nice, but clearly, they themselves are aware of at least some of the points above and seem to have their hands tied, nor have any relevant input into the hiring process itself.