Vantaggi
- Good benefits, well looked after and thought about in terms of people - Open, transparent comms and business direction - Flexible work/life balance - Nice offices / rooms / desks - Good range of benefits
Svantaggi
Overhyped by the job agent who assured me I won't have worked at a company before with a culture as good as Skyscanner. Wrong. It's like any other company yet with a poor engineering culture and management (in the London Office). It thinks it's an agile culture, but it's a long way off. Very enterprise-like in many respects... - Very little autonomy - Lots of upfront design and documentation, sign-off - Isolated squads, people working individually (almost expected so) - Micro-management, bureaucracy - Code first, test later If you want to learn how to become a good developer/engineer this isn't the company to do so. Products are long and progress slowly as do decisions around them. Career progression is slow and lacks visibility. Too much dependency on being liked by managers (who are a large part of the problem) rather than just being good at what you do. Too much chain of command/feedback as part of it. Poor hiring policy. Seem to value CV titles from large enterprise companies, which affects the culture hugely.
Vantaggi
Great culture. You truly get the sense that people care for one another and want the full team to succeed, not just individuals. High exposure to commercial strategy early on Even in junior roles, you’re not just pushing buttons, you're helping to solve complex challenges. That’s rare and valuable. Cross-functional visibility. You get a front-row seat to how product, commercial, and marketing intersect, especially in Ads. Good place to understand how a travel marketplace actually operates. Ownership culture (if you lean into it). If you’re proactive, you can carve out scope quickly. Global exposure. Working across regions (Americas, EMEA, APAC) gives a broader view of how airlines and OTAs operate differently, which is useful for long-term career growth.
Svantaggi
All the flexibility and benefits above come with the con of being a bit too flexible at times, leading to gaps in effective tooling and resource to tackle things in a timely manner. However, this is mitigated by the collaborative culture.
Vantaggi
-Nice offices -Free snacks -When working home, pretty good -Decent pay but could be better
Svantaggi
-They force you to come into the office unnecessarily when all of your work can be done from home -Toxic frat party culture, they have too many after work hour social events that feel mandatory -If you don’t partake in their social events you are alienated from advancing in the company since it’s a popularity contest and mostly based on favoritism -Impossible to transfer to another department or advance in any way, if you want to grow; hell even get a raise, don’t count on it (unless you are friends with the right people) -Incompetent managers with little people experience and fewer brain cells -Little to no diversity and lots of ignorance on these topics.