Data Scientist 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 Data Scientist roles take an average of 41 days to get hired, when considering 3 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 Data Scientist according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Presentation: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Skyscanner
Interview
First, an initial screener talk about cultural fit that was pleasant.
Second, a technical challenge in hackerrank that had nothing to do with the position I was applying or with any real use case. This was quite disappointing, but I was invited to continue with the hiring process.
Third, a one day interview in the headquarters. A lot of talks with HHRR and managers. Only a couple of talks with technical employees, and half of them were too junior.
I asked several times about the future of the company and I never got a clear answer. Anyway, their culture is fantastic, but I was a bit disappointed with their selection process.
The process is very well structured but the cultural interview felt way more demanding than the coding rounds. Was asked to design a flight ranking system in the systems design interview, was asked a lot about experiment design in the depth of expertise round.
Questions received from the cultural interview portion:
— interview dynamics intro —
What are the company values?
A time when you worked with someone with a different working style than yours, how did you work through that
A time when you had a disagreement with someone, what would you do differently
How did you make a process simpler and how did you think it through and identify points to standardize/simplify, who did you communicate with during this process
A time when you made a decision with the customer in mind
What is something that you are looking for in your next role
Tell me about a time when you had to dive deep into learning something new at a project.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you make an AB experiment stop earlier than planned? (Aiming for alpha spending function through group sequential testing).
Interesting interview, many rounds and a huge time commitnent.
I went through all rounds without interviewing/getting a chance to talk to anyone from the prospective team.
The technical rounds was a bit dated.
Very relaxed, respectful and easy going.
The interviewer was very nice and she just wanted to see how much I know but most importantly what I would do if I had to figure out sth by myself.