Skyscanner reviews

Terrible management - my line manager is overbearing, micro-manages and incredibly corporate. Too much talk and not enough doing. Decisions are opaque and consensus has to be reached by too many teams to get anything done. Goals changed every 6 months, and work wasn't maintained so be prepared to throw everything in the bin you've worked towards. Teams don't practice what they preach - lots of talk about engineering best practices, but in reality all codebases are a total mess and product just want stuff shipped. Seeing as you'll throw everything away every six months it just leads to more and more crap in production. Meetings - you'll spend most of your work week in unnecessary meetings, even if you're just a standard developer. Difficult to be promoted - the criteria are clear for promotion, but unrealistic to attain for most developers. All about working cross-tribe and cross-squad, which most developers won't get the opportunity to do so.

Incredibly vague goals from leadership like "Prepare to be a $100bn GMV company". Strategy that is mostly based on wishful thinking rather than understanding the landscape. Instead of leaning into the new reality of increased WFH and within-country travel we're just trying to hide out and wait for things to go back to how they were. Engineering culture is based almost entirely on jumping through the right hoops to get a promotion rather than actually delivering value to travellers.