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Updated Apr 20, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Engineer at Yahoo
Posted Apr 20, 2012
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 (took 2+ weeks)
manager is not good but the rest of the team asked proper questions
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Engineer at Yahoo
Posted Feb 15, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2009 in Santa Clara, CA (took 5 days)
HR interview
Hiring Manager interview
Team interview
HR calls back if hiring manager is interested.
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Negotiation Details
any first offer HR gives, they are ready to go upto 10% without effort...so ask for 15%-20% more.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Engineer at Yahoo
Posted Sep 1, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2009 (took 5 days)
Hiring manager called and talked about the position, it was in the advertising engineering goroup. Spoke to him for abouit 30 mins and found i wasnt a good fit. They asked me some random JSP questions.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Engineering at Yahoo
Posted Jun 29, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2010 in San Francisco, CA (took 4 days)
Interviewed with another member of the team via phone. Was able to cover most of the language questions without too much difficulty, but then began to trip on questions about design patterns and specific algorithms. Unfortunately most of the jobs that I've had have been pretty elementary in terms of code design and usage, and so I was less prepared for that than I should have been. Did not get a request for a 1:1 interview.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Engineering at Yahoo
Posted May 28, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2008 (took 2+ weeks)
There were two rounds of telephonic interviews. These were mostly technical, focusing on UNIX and systems programming concepts. After a couple of days the HR scheduled an onsite interview.
The interview started around afternoon and consisted of 4 rounds of technical and 1 manager interview. At the end of the rounds, the HR came and made the offer.
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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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Engineer at Yahoo
Posted May 5, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2010 (took a day)
Initial phone interview was about 40 minutes and was mostly basic Java programming questions.
On site interview had five interviewers including hiring manager and senior member of the group. Many questions were related to describing / pseudo coding various search algorithms.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineer at Yahoo
Posted Apr 29, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 (took 2 days)
Got the email and then they scheduled the interview onsite. I was very excited after getting offer from Yahoo. My interview was good. They asked some questions from Perl and MySql. I was pretty comfortable in this. Something went wrong and they didn't offer.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineer at Yahoo
Posted Apr 4, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2008 (took 2 months)
Overall, it was a good experience. The on-site recruiter was very helpful and prompt on communication.
Phone interviews and face to face interviews are mostly on the technology and skills. The interviews are very objective. It can be tough, if you don't know what you are talking about.
Interview process consisted several phone interviews, with different people. Yahoo! is very careful on inviting people for face to face interview, at least that was my feeling. The face to face interviews can be lengthy, be well rested and prepared before the interview.
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Negotiation Details
Salary and bonus are negotiable, but in a limited scale. Instead, if you are planning stay with Yahoo, try to get stock option instead. Since the stock price is low, ask on dollar amount. I could see the stock price go up in the next couple of years.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Engineer at Yahoo
Posted Nov 26, 2009
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2008 (took a day)
initial communication is very fast. Time between initial approach and the interview is very fast. I liked the way they were so committed to the timeliness.
There was initially a phone interview followed by onsite one. Onsite has 4-5 interviews, generally covering wide range of topics like programming skills, problem solving ability, puzzles and some design questions.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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