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Skyscanner is frequently hailed for helping its team members have a great work-life balance - and a great work-life balance means…real time for life-enriching hobbies! Today we’re highlighting the fantastic photography of Ilya Ilford, who has been busy creating a series of portraits of the people of Leith Walk in Edinburgh. Ilya forces himself to be selective and incisive with his subjects by taking his photos with a Rolleiflex camera (which means he's restricted to 12 shots per roll of film). You can view some of his (really rather moving) images, and read about his project in more detail by checking out this recent BBC feature on Ilya and his work 📷 👇
PhocusWire has just launched ‘How I Got Here’ - a fantastic new podcast dedicated to getting the inside stories on the most innovative travel and transportation companies – and the man in the hot-seat for the very first episode is Skyscanner co-founder, former CEO and current chairperson, Gareth Williams! If you like open, honest, and insightful business chat, then you will definitely want to add Gareth’s interview - and How I Got Here - to your must-listen-list 🎙
"Focus on what you enjoy and have a passion for it. I remember reading Good to Great by Jim Collins, and this is the advice he gives. It is advice that I continue to follow and live by. Also, do not try to plan out your entire career. Learn from experiences, improve your skill set and opportunities will come your way." Wise words from Hugh Aitken, Skyscanner's Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships, in this revealing Econsultancy interview...
Sprint goals, yoga, guilds, tribes and family: there’s no such thing as an ordinary week for a full stack engineer at Skyscanner, but Stephen Hailey can tell you a little bit about a typical week - his story is live on our engineering blog now 👇
Five data centres around the world. Over 7,000 VMs. 300 different services. More than 40 engineering teams - it’s fair to say our recent all-in move from on-premise data centres to #AWS ☁️ was a colossal piece of work. In his new piece for our engineering blog, Skyscanner’s Ashley Sole discusses our approach to cloud migration – and reveals the hard-won lessons we learnt along the way
Fed up with the disappointing summer weather in the UK? Fed up with your job? Why not code yourself an escape route! We’ve teamed up with Hired, Inc. to create a unique 30-45 minute challenge hosted on the Hired Assessments platform – successful challengers will be in with a chance of winning one of the three £500 Skyscanner vouchers we're giving away - and get fast-tracked to the interview stage of our hiring process. The competition is only running until July 14 - start your bid for freedom at http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMEF5
Over on our engineering blog Nikolaos Tsipas has just published a great piece about how we built a self-served ETL pipeline for ingesting third-party data - and how you can too. Also worth a read to see how we're using cool technologies like Cookiecutter, AWS Batch and Glue for cutting-edge projects!
Here at Skyscanner we’ve been Trello fans (and users) for a long time – and so we were incredibly excited to get the chance to work with them on a very special project – creating ‘power-ups’ for travel planning / trip-themed Trello boards. Read about what we’ve built and create a Trello board for your next holiday today: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMXjr
Seven talented people. Four short weeks. One killer idea. The story of Skyscanner’s first ever Maker Studio continues now, over on our Growth blog #MoveFastAndMakeThings
Skyscanner graduates work on the same challenging problems and projects as their teammates and deliver work that makes an impact with travellers – from day one. Recently we held a huge global celebration to mark the graduation of our Class of 2017. Congratulations to all our grads – we can’t wait to see what you’re going to do next! 🎉🎊🍾🎓
