Skyscanner Reviews

Pros

- A lot of really smart engineers work here - Fantastic culture supportive of learning from failures and asking direct questions of leadership - Supportive of work/life balance - Competitive pay and benefits - Internal/employee tooling and support is treated the same as our customers, making me feel very valued

Cons

- Frequent strategy changes are disruptive to day-to-day-work - Career progression, especially progress beyond a senior engineer, is not very transparent

Advice to Management

More transparency, less diruption

Pros

Excellent company to work at. Quality of work depends on the team of-course. I am lucky to be in of the best teams. Lots of learning and impactful work.

Cons

None that I can think of right now

Pros

- An opportunity to create products with meaning and to impact 'real people'. - Nice offices, but not on par with Facebook/Google - corporate wrapped up in colorful floors. - Huge mobile focus, ability to work on cutting edge tech.

Cons

- The only constant is change. You need to be resilient and willing to move with the times, be it the 6month strategy or the monthly re-focus. Hold on to why they hired you. You be you, let them be them. - Embrace a crazy schedule. Be prepared to meet to prepare for the meeting. And to do it in person. If you are not based in London, be ready to visit. A lot. - If you're based in London, don't get caught up in the "could...

Advice to Management

"What got you here, won't get you there", but equally what got you here, got you here. Don't forget that.

Pros

Salary and Bonus. There also is an opportunity to buy shares in the company.

Cons

Many senior managers especially in the so called growth tribe pride themselves being challengers or disrupters. As challengers they are utterly useless as they have no clue on the substance they're challenging on. They often lack basic understanding of individual markets (eg, they only know Spain from their beach holidays but consider themselves well placed to challenge the native's growth strategy) and they haven't used...

Advice to Management

Look at all the evidence against 360 degree feedback. Stop constantly strategising. Get rid of the bullies in senior management. The atmosphere is sick and broken. In Edinburgh, this used to be a company you could be proud of.

Pros

Agile, work-life balance, growth opportunities

Cons

Locations, changes sometimes way too often, ambiguity in the structure and roles

Pros

I have never worked with such a big group of amazingly friendly people. I genuinely haven't met a single person who isn't nice, friendly, helpful and willing to listen.

Cons

Widely distributed teams across three timezones makes some communication and working difficult. While this may seem to be a good basis for remote working, it hasn't worked out so well for me. No perks related to working for a travel company.

Advice to Management

More upfront honesty about expectations of job roles before making an offer, and the likelihood of remote working.

Pros

Great squad mates, good compensation and benefit packages and perks and at time fun and exciting challenges to work on.

Cons

An executive team which can seem out of touch with both the teams they manage and the needs of the average traveller. Some seem out of their depth in handling questions internally and I don’t feel genuinely listened to. Often feel as though we have lost sight of what travellers really want in how we prioritise what we build. Culturally we aren’t the same company we were when I joined a few years ago. The atmosphere...

Advice to Management

Please take time to listen to customer interviews regularly and engage with our travellers around the world and have the confidence to change course in response to them. Please also prioritise our culture and address staff retention and particularly diversity to make sure we can both attract and retain the best people. Don’t feel you have to have the perfect response in town halls - we just want to hear your honest...

Pros

Interesting problems, freedom to decide on your stack, flexible working.

Cons

Poor diversity, with very few women engineers at the most senior levels of the company. There is, unless it has drastically changed, more than one tribe without a single woman squad lead. They appear to be neither hired directly nor given proper opportunities to progress. There is also no anonymous way to report harassment at the company, which a former colleague confided was a problem she faced.

Advice to Management

Break up the boys' club in tribe engineering leadership. There are several talented women engineers frustrated at their lack of progression who have left for greater recognition and opportunities elsewhere.