J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Skyscanner (Édimbourg, Écosse) en nov. 2017
Entretien
Unprofessional first phone call with a recruiter. First bad sign was that even though the call was scheduled 2 weeks in advance, in the hours leading up to the call she asked to reschedule and move the call earlier/later in the day numerous times. Even when I agreed, 30 minutes later another email came asking to change again, etc.
She was clearly reading questions from a list and typing the responses. It felt like she's typing without understanding what she types (e.g. when I listed the technologies I use).
We were discussing roles in three different European countries. The recruiter asked me for my salary expectations and I said it would depend on the office I would work. To me that makes perfect sense, but given her insistence on getting 1 number I feel like she doesn't share that same view. Weird!
Skyscanner could be an amazing company to work for, but having someone unprofessional as a gatekeeper they will miss out on good talent.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Standard interview questions - tell me about your experience, what technologies do you use, etc.
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.
Questions d'entretien [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.
J'ai passé un entretien chez Skyscanner (Édimbourg, Écosse)
Entretien
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.