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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Feb 2010 in Bangalore (India) (took 4 days)

I was called up for the architect position. After briefly asking me about my previous projects, it
straightaway went to strategies for searches for huge number of web pages followed by
searches in huge files. I explained that I have never done such a thing and gave it a try.

The interview was abruptly cut within 20 minutes making it clear that I am not answering to
the interviewers satisfaction.

Interview Questions

Sorting web pages based on number of hits per hour for a month

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Other Details

The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Mar 2010 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 2 days)

An employee referred me to an Architect level software engineering position within the company. A couple weeks after he forwarded my resume to the hiring manager, I received an initial phone call from the hiring manager.

The hiring manager was pleasant and very easy to speak with. We made plans for phone interviews and on-site interviews. The manager sent me an official job description.

The job description clearly indicated that the job was an "architect" level position. However, my on-site invitation referred to the position as a "Sr Principal Engineer" role. Later, the recruiter verbally confirmed that Yahoo would offer me a "Principal Engineer" position.

Is this a bait-n-switch act. I don't know for sure, but I don't like the initial feelings I have about it. Over the course of a week, the architect job has disappeared and has rematerialized as a job title 2 or 3 levels lower. This simply does not agree with my initial expectations for the job role and title.

Interview Questions

How do you influence others to take a course of action when you have no direct authority over them?

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Reason for Declining

I have decided to decline the offer if we cannot resolve this job role/title problem. Of course, I have no leverage once I've joined, so it is better to ask for what I really want at this point.

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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Dec 2009 in Bangalore (India) (took 1+ week)

Had a couple of rounds of phone interviews. There were lots of questions about algorithms specific to hadoop. Interviewed initially for the grid computing team though the technical went well, some gaps were found and Yahoo is planning to interview me for a different