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A message of hope from our CEO, Bryan Dove. “In this time of crisis, we know that travel is impossible for many of you. At Skyscanner, we cannot mindfully encourage you to explore the world right now, but I wanted to share my case for hope and optimism about what’s on the other side.”
Skyscanner’s design system, ‘Backpack’, played a crucial role in enabling our recent brand refresh. In the latest post on our Engineering blog, Shaun Donnelly looks at how having a design system helped Skyscanner with its makeover— and could help your business in the same way. Check it out 👇
Skyscanner's Eileen Rogers knows a thing or two about sales; from her job as a human pop-up banner to guiding a top tennis coach through a modern art purchase, she’s bringing everything she’s learnt to her role as the Design Lead for our Modern Advertising Tribe. Read about her journey — and her vision for genuinely traveller-centric ads - on our dedicated marketing blog #mustreads #advertising #design #UX #creative #modern #journey #sales
Say hello to our brand new look! We're still the same Skyscanner, but we've got a new mission - to lead the global transformation to modern and sustainable travel. What does that actually mean? We want to look after our planet so future generations get to explore it, too. Read more: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vM0IY
Sprint goals, yoga, guilds, tribes and family: there’s no such thing as an ordinary week for a full stack engineer at Skyscanner, but Stephen Hailey can tell you a little bit about a typical week - his story is live on our engineering blog now 👇
Five data centres around the world. Over 7,000 VMs. 300 different services. More than 40 engineering teams - it’s fair to say our recent all-in move from on-premise data centres to #AWS ☁️ was a colossal piece of work. In his new piece for our engineering blog, Skyscanner’s Ashley Sole discusses our approach to cloud migration – and reveals the hard-won lessons we learnt along the way
Fed up with the disappointing summer weather in the UK? Fed up with your job? Why not code yourself an escape route! We’ve teamed up with Hired, Inc. to create a unique 30-45 minute challenge hosted on the Hired Assessments platform – successful challengers will be in with a chance of winning one of the three £500 Skyscanner vouchers we're giving away - and get fast-tracked to the interview stage of our hiring process. The competition is only running until July 14 - start your bid for freedom at http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMEF9
Over on our engineering blog Nikolaos Tsipas has just published a great piece about how we built a self-served ETL pipeline for ingesting third-party data - and how you can too. Also worth a read to see how we're using cool technologies like Cookiecutter, AWS Batch and Glue for cutting-edge projects!
Here at Skyscanner we’ve been Trello fans (and users) for a long time – and so we were incredibly excited to get the chance to work with them on a very special project – creating ‘power-ups’ for travel planning / trip-themed Trello boards. Read about what we’ve built and create a Trello board for your next holiday today: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMXjz
Seven talented people. Four short weeks. One killer idea. The story of Skyscanner’s first ever Maker Studio continues now, over on our Growth blog #MoveFastAndMakeThings
