Skyscanner Reviews

Pros

Ability to change: Leadership reacts seriously to employee feedback and drives change. I've seen broken processes dropped, bad decisions reversed, salary bands fixed. Strong and approachable technical leadership: Experts are within a chat message away no matter if it's Android, Kafka, Kubernetes, you name it. Same for leadership and management. Also you can use their network. Working on a successful... large-scale B2C travel service: Personally I love (sustainable) travel and the industry keeps amazing me. Lightweight processes, minimal waste of time: Auto-approvals for travel, teams decide their own processes, easy budgeting, rotations across teams and sites.

Cons

Slow recruitment process on some sites. Lack of accountability. I'm not missing punishment but making sure that when something goes wrong we take responsibility and fix it. A weak, not lovable brand as of now (2019). Not too much open source work, lack of visibility on conferences, blogs.

Advice to Management

Empower people on all levels to take risks. It's a stable business that can afford radical changes.

Pros

I've worked in Skyscanner for several years and it amazes me how ambitious the company is. Very little complacency, big ideas and a culture second to none. I've never worked somewhere where the culture is so profoundly important.

Cons

Big ideas brings big complexity, which causes stresses and strains

Pros

Has given me a number of opportunities to continue learn & grow alongside similarly motivated and enthusiastic colleagues. I feel my managers have listened to my feedback over my first 12 months and that is appreciated.

Cons

Continued growth brings organisational and technical debt and things that worked yesterday may not work today. Not really a con - just flagging that there is a degree of ongoing change.

Advice to Management

Keep listening, keep supporting / encouraging and keep developing opportunities to learn and grow. Thanks.

Pros

Good company to start your growth

Cons

Company direction changed very frequently

Pros

- Great product for now - Flexibly at work

Cons

- Recently taking extremely top down approach and are unconvinced for the most of employees due to lack of rationality perspectives - Some of recent CxOs fail to build trust from employees due to the lack of sense of customer perspectives

Advice to Management

Work for customers rather than work for what you want to achieve in your role

Pros

Flexibility, flat hierarchy, Informal, nice pantry

Cons

Few promotion levels, basic graduate program

Advice to Management

Be more transparent and truthful.

Pros

- most "human" and high trust environment I've ever worked for. If you have a newborn, you can basically WFH and dial in for all the meetings - working with a group of a caring yet highly intelligent group will inspire to grow and improve - you can learn and grow whichever way you want in your career

Cons

- change strategy or restructure too many times which signals that top management wasn't clear what they want - product improvement or iterations are slower than any competitors in the region

Pros

- Most engaged and available exec team I have ever worked with - Teams are truly empowered to deliver impact and adapt how they work

Cons

- facing the typical challenges of a company going through this stage of growth