Yelp Engineer Intern Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – The interview process for Yelp is very easy to game. They have a non-techincal person call you and ask you questions which have answers where there is not more than one way to answer such as number of bytes a 64 bit processor processes and the kill signal for linux. This means that a thorough glassdooring will almost assure you a second round.

Interview Details – First there's a screening interview, not really useful but that's a trend these days. After that I was scheduled 2 interview with different software engineers.
The first one was very basic, he was asking questions about Web architecture and development. Nothing too complicated for a decent Web developer.
The second was a bit more complicated since he was asking live code his algorithm questions, which were not useful problem that you would solve inside a company. It was mainly to see how good you are with your algorithmic skills.

Interview Details – Did a resume drop at a career fair. Followed up with one hour on campus interview. No offer extended.

Interview Details – I had one on-campus interview and one interview over Skype, each was about 45 minutes. The on-campus interview began with a few questions about my resume then he jumped into coding (which was written on a chalkboard). The skype interview was about 45 mins and was given a link to code in.

Interview Details – Meet Yelp guys at the University job fair. They're really nice. I got a first round phone interview two weeks later. Since I was a new CSer, I only knew some fundamentals of data structure and algorithm. For the language, I was OK with C++. But their questions were so wide, varing from basic data structure problems, to python and SQL syntax, and also some networking knowledge. So I didn't do well. But in fact the interview was quite easy and basic, as I look back now. The only difficulty is the wide coverage. So the interviewee had better prepare a wide range of knowledge for Yelp.

Interview Details – -I gave my resume at our campus career fair and was contacted by a recruiter within two weeks.
-I had a phone interview with recruiter. It was obvious that I had to just get a certain number of questions correct from the ones he asked.
-He told me then I had passed on to the next round which would be with a software engineer.

Interview Details – They originally came to my campus and emailed me several weeks later. They setup an initial HR phone screen which consisted of a dozen mostly easy questions. The recruiter doing the phone screen couldn't really answer my questions when I asked for clarification on the screening questions, because the recruiter wasn't that technical. I thought some were trick questions they were so easy, but you can find almost every question from this interview on glassdoor.

Then I had another interview, which was technical and over skype with a young engineer. He asked me about my projects/resume, then got into some coding questions. I passed this interview and went on to another that followed the same format. If I could suggest one thing- practice recursion. I started solving all their problems iteratively and quickly realized that they were easily solved with recursion.

After a solid second technical interview I got their generic rejection email. It was pretty sudden, I had gotten pretty far in the process (apparently a back-to-back interview was the only thing left). Several friends of mine were also in the same boat - a sudden rejection late in the process. So clearly they have a tough time making decisions. It seems like they waste a lot of time/resources on all these interviews when they only hire ~30 interns.

Interview Details – Initial HR phone screen. Asked if I was good with Python, how many bits to represent a hexadecimal, what does SSL stand for, other simple questions.

Interview Details – There are two interviews. The first one was a hiring manager asking me some easy computer science problems. The second one asked me some specific problems about web development and asked me to write a real program. The first one took 20 mins, and the second one took 45 mins. There should be a last round, but I was rejected after the second interview.