Senior Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Skyscanner with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 39.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Developer roles take an average of 34 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Skyscanner overall takes an average of 37 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Skyscanner as a Senior Software Developer according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 38%
One on one interview: 31%
Presentation: 19%
Group panel interview: 13%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Skyscanner (London, England) in Aug 2017
Interview
I was asked to do a code exercise (I was given 2 options, full stack or backend). The gave me feedback on the exercise and some general comments. After that I was invited to an assessment day with 4 interviews
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked to design a website, not only on the server side level but also on infrastructure and devops level
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