The Skyscanner culture is totally fake - Software Engineer Skyscanner Employee Review

1.0
Apr 30, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Nice offices Decent pay Fruit & soft drinks Nice laptops Woke from home Ping pong table, etc.

Cons

The Skayscanner culture is totally fake. They say they are open and the staff opinion counts. In my experience it's quite the opposite. Very few people have all the say, and you better not disagree with them, or you will be set aside, marginalised or even bullied. My experience is an experience of zero tolerance towards different opinions, even in our technical field of expertise. We are paid to make an intellectual contribution but in reality we are there only to execute orders. This is very demoralising and humiliating. This also explains why Skyscanner has not been able to innovate and has been doing the same thing for the last 20 years: they happily live in their echo chamber.

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Skyscanner Response
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Thanks for taking the time to review. We were concerned to read of your experience and are taking your feedback very seriously. We’d encourage you to talk to your manager, or if you’ve already done this and would like additional support, please reach out to the People Team in confidence. Creating and sustaining an inclusive environment is really important to us, and we’re sorry to hear you haven’t experienced this. We’d like to hear more, so please reach out and we’ll do our best to help.

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