Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Skyscanner overall takes an average of 72 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Skyscanner as a Senior Software Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
IQ intelligence test: 33%
Presentation: 33%
Phone interview: 33%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Skyscanner (Barcelona) in Oct 2017
Interview
1. Choose beetween a small full stack project or a online test
2. phone screen with recruiter
3. technical online interview
4. onsite interview with 2 cultural session, one hard problem and one depth of expertise.
Overall a nice experience, but too many cultural and behavioral question often duplicated through different interviewers which was kind of frustating. Plus they focus too much on seemed caring more on past and product skills experience instead of considering the potential of the candidate. This is just my opinion of course.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Tell me a time when you had a conflict in the team.
- Tell me a time when you did something that had a big impact.
- Tell me a time when you had to take responsability of someone else mistake
Depth of expertise - Interviewer asks you to take them through your recent project and dives deep into few sections. Questions were majorly around Scale, Performance monitoring and things to improve.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me 2 things you wish to change if given a opportunity to re-design.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Skyscanner (Edinburgh, Scotland) in Apr 2025
Interview
Very pleasant interview process. It is a 3 step process, the first part speaking about a project you've worked on. Then followed by 2 back to back interviews: a system design interview and a culture fit.
You don't interview with anyone with the team throughout the whole process. But I believe they give you the chance to speak to the manager of the team if they make an offer.
There was no programming exercise which I found refreshing and nice.
Nice and easy interview process. 1 screening round, system design and behavioural round. System design round went well. I came to know behavioural had lower scoring but then turned out positive.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system for scrapping data from various data sources