Skyscanner reviews

Promotion/career advancement system is totally broken. Boorish blowhards who concentrate on delivering little and being 'visible' get promoted ahead of technically competent engineers who get through the majority of work quietly. This is common in lots of companies, but especially bad at Skyscanner The staff have been telling management this for years in employee surveys and it is worse than ever. Humiliating calibration sessions where department management and team management go through each member of the department, the manager puts forward their rating and management pushback with all the reasons why that person is not that rating. Not sure why this has to be done with all team leads - most of whom are your peers and you work with daily - and can't just be with the people managers individually? There is an enormous engineering problem that is currently seeping into the product. Fortunately not many people are travelling right now and they may be able to fix it before people notice how bad the app is at the moment.

Strictly authoritarian company: you have to believe and do everything the "Skyscanner way". Little tyrants everywhere: every single person who has minimal power forces his/her way of doing things. Plenty of self celebration. Huge egos. Very small human beings.