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Logistics & mobilityProduct company

Skyscanner

Runs a travel search site and app that compares flights, hotels and car hire across airlines and travel agents.

Not known5 stage process documentedFounded 2003
Headquarters

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Headcount

1,000 to 5,000

1,000 to 4,999 people
Work model

Not known

Hiring

Not known

Not enough signal to say. Check the careers page directly.
Where to apply

No careers page on file yet. Try their LinkedIn or the job boards below.

Website

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How they hire

Stages are from an engineer’s account on the Skyscanner Engineering blog; the company notes the process varies by job. Graduate engineers instead do a 30 minute video interview and a coding test, then a Discovery Day with a 75 minute group exercise plus separate culture and technical interviews.

  1. 1

    Online test: small full-stack project

    Reported
    Take-home assignmentRemote

    Build a small full-stack project online. One engineer heard back within 48 hours of submitting.

  2. 2

    Technical interview

    Reported
    Technical interview

    An interview testing the depth of your expertise.

  3. 3

    Culture interview

    Reported
    Culture fit

    A relaxed conversation about how you would fit in at Skyscanner.

  4. 4

    Final round: two technical interviews, 60 minutes each

    Reported
    System design1 hours

    Usually in the office, with short breaks between interviews. Both involve challenging problems in a system design style.

  5. 5

    Final culture interview, 60 minutes

    Reported
    Culture fit1 hours

    The last interview of the final round, focused on Skyscanner cultural values and your questions.

What comes up

Recurring themes from candidate accounts, not a question bank. Nobody is served by leaked question lists, least of all you in the interview.

  • System design

    Reported

    Final-round technical interviews use challenging problems in a system design style.

  • Explaining your reasoning

    Official

    Skyscanner wants to hear your thought process, check your assumptions aloud, and see you improve a first or brute force answer.

  • Company values

    Reported +1

    Culture interviews explore who you are and how you align with Skyscanner values.

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A bundle of five company-specific question courses covering the problems most often reported from Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Oracle coding rounds, each split into easy, medium and hard sets with worked solutions. It suits candidates who already know the core patterns and have a loop booked at one of these companies, and want to rehearse on the questions those interviewers are known to ask.

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Arslan Ahmad: Interview Coaching

One-to-one coaching with the author of the best-selling Grokking courses, a tech lead whose background spans Meta, Microsoft and Hulu, where he built and scaled distributed systems and data storage infrastructure. Sessions cover system design, data structures and algorithms, interview strategy and career direction. It suits engineers who have prepared seriously and want an expert read on what is still holding them back.

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The best single book for understanding what data engineering is and how the pieces fit, organised around the data engineering lifecycle rather than any one tool. Read it alongside a hands-on course: it explains why things are built the way they are, the course teaches you to build them.

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  • Leadership
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What are you adding?

This decides how the claim is labelled on the page. Only someone representing the company can produce an “official” label, and I check that separately.

Year and month.

Comma separated topics, not the questions themselves.

Round by round is ideal: what each one was, how long, remote or in person, and what it covered.

Credit

Anonymous is the default. If you keep it anonymous, nothing identifying you reaches the page: it is published as a candidate account and your name stays with me. Never send anything covered by an NDA, and never send a take-home or a question paper.

Universities they recruit from

No sourced university links yet. A campus drive, a career fair appearance or an internship partnership is what puts a university here.

Add to the Skyscanner page

This library is only as good as what people who have been through it are willing to share. Most of these companies have no hiring process documented anywhere, and one account of what the rounds actually were is worth more than anything I can research from the outside.

What are you adding?

This decides how the claim is labelled on the page. Only someone representing the company can produce an “official” label, and I check that separately.

Year and month.

Comma separated topics, not the questions themselves.

Round by round is ideal: what each one was, how long, remote or in person, and what it covered.

Credit

Anonymous is the default. If you keep it anonymous, nothing identifying you reaches the page: it is published as a candidate account and your name stays with me. Never send anything covered by an NDA, and never send a take-home or a question paper.

How to actually get seen

Talk through your approach and state your assumptions, starting with a simple solution and improving it. Read the Skyscanner values before the culture interviews and prepare questions of your own.

Sources

Whole profile last checked 2026-09-22.

Interviewed at Skyscanner? Fill in what changed.

Processes change, rounds get added, tests get replaced. If what you went through was different from what is on this page, tell me and I will update it.

Want me to refer you here?

Send me the role, your CV and a few honest paragraphs on why you fit it. Where I know someone inside and your profile matches, I will make the introduction. Where I cannot, I will tell you why and point you at the route that does work. You get an answer either way.

Ask for a referral to Skyscanner

A referral only means something if the person giving it can actually speak to your work. I will refer you where I know someone on the inside and your profile genuinely fits the role, and I will tell you plainly when I cannot. Either way you get an answer, and a straight one.

  • I read every request. A reply takes a few days, sometimes longer.
  • I will not refer someone for a role their profile does not fit. It wastes your time and costs me the contact.
  • Where I cannot refer you, I will say why, and point you at the way in that does work.
  • Nothing you send here is shared with anyone without you agreeing to it first.

If you found the opening, paste it. It tells me which team you mean.

A Drive, Dropbox or personal-site link is fine. Make sure it opens without a request for access, or I cannot read it.

At least a short paragraph. This is what I would be putting my name behind, so specifics beat adjectives.

Comma separated, up to six. Things you would be happy to be tested on.

Add to the Skyscanner page

This library is only as good as what people who have been through it are willing to share. Most of these companies have no hiring process documented anywhere, and one account of what the rounds actually were is worth more than anything I can research from the outside.

What are you adding?

This decides how the claim is labelled on the page. Only someone representing the company can produce an “official” label, and I check that separately.

Year and month.

Comma separated topics, not the questions themselves.

Round by round is ideal: what each one was, how long, remote or in person, and what it covered.

Credit

Anonymous is the default. If you keep it anonymous, nothing identifying you reaches the page: it is published as a candidate account and your name stays with me. Never send anything covered by an NDA, and never send a take-home or a question paper.

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