Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Skyscanner with 5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Skyscanner (Londres, Inglaterra) in Oct 2017
Interview
Overall the process went smoothly. The interview was mainly focused on my experience and what I can bring to the table. In particular, how my experience is relevant for the company and which projects I can imagine myself working on.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How might your experience be relevant for the company and which projects could you imagine to fit well?
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.