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Updated May 22, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Bangalore (India) (took a day)

Interview consists of first round telephonic just general discussion and some easy technical stuff. After that they said to me there will another telephonic round it was schedule and suddenly HR called me that now there will be no telephonic round direct face to face. It was schedule next day itself.

Face to face I faced three rounds all technical and each one told me to wait. After third round HR came and told me that now Hiring Manager will talk to you he will accompany you for lunch and there it self he will discuss. I waited almost 1.5 hour to turn up but no one came it was almost 3:00 PM and finally I call HR, he told me that Hiring Manger will talk you in evening as he is busy and I can go for the day. But till then I am still waiting for his call.

There is not at all professionalism in the process they treat the person coming there as a dog. After taking interview from 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM continuously they even have courtesy to ask for tea/coffer not even water.

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Design and aircraft landing system.

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How to reverse the linked list

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Presentation.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Mar 2010 in Bangalore (India) (took a day)

Started with a Phone Interview with a panel of 2 people from Yahoo, One a Program Manager and the other being an HR representative. This was for a duration of 1 hour. Consisted of normal questions as to:
- Current profile
- Which teams/all co-located or geo-separated
- SCRUM based development, this was one of the biggest topic discussed

Following this, i was call for a face to face interview at the Bangalore office. Yahoo provided for the air-fare and actually provided me the tickets as well. However there was no offer for the transport cost within the city from Home to Airport / Airport to Yahoo and vice versa.

Surprisingly, although the interview was scheduled nearly 15 days ago, people from the panel were missing or not in office. I was made to wait for an hour before the process started with an adhoc panel and with a couple of people taking the interview over the phone while i was in the Yahoo office.

Again the interview mainly consisted of discussions on the projects i have worked one and again the biggest factor was the SCRUM based development methodology.

Post this, i had phone interviews with Director Program Management, based in US, and then again with a Sr. Dir. Program Management. These two interviews happened a couple of weeks after Yahoo office interviews.

I was informed approx. 1 week post the last phone interview that the deal would not work out.

Overall an OK experience, but the time taken was not expected since this was detailed out to be an urgent requirement.

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Nothing

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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Personality Test.

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Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Dec 2010 in Bangalore (India) (took 5 days)

Yahoo Bangalore is pretty much a waste of time. The recruitment team does not have the common human decency to inform you of the outcome of the interview.

Interviewers are a mixed bag: some are very professional and some are just bad.

If you have time, go and take the interview for practice or entertainment.

If you get a offer, you have to decide whether to get involved with a company that is on the way out.

Overall, I did not get a good feeling from Yahoo Bangalore. The recruiter and some interviewers were unprofessional.

Interview Questions

Same old computer science fundamentals.

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Presentation.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Feb 2010 in Bangalore (India) (took a day)

Telephonic Round - 45 minutes duration.
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There was one puzzle to solve.
And some questions based on previous projects done.
This is basically a screening round - but it is lengthy.
If they do not like you in this round, you will not be called for Face2Face round.

Face2Face Round - Half Day.
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There were three separate people who interviewed one after another.
Each interview was for about 45 minutes.
All three people seemed to have a different experience level.
Puzzle was part of two of these interviews - it was some kind of holy grail of their interviewing.

The first round questions was on core java, XSL and a Puzzle (about a pack of cards).
The second round was purely about solving a problem around a legacy application(see in questions section).
The third round was questions on projects i had done, writing code for a Sort Algorithm and a puzzle.

Observations
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1. There is lot of stress on following areas in interview:
    Sort Algorithms (Bubble, Binary, Heap etc.)
    The Big O Notation.
    Puzzles
2. This results in lots of good people who don't know the above topics - to be not shortlisted.
In my opinion - this is poor way of judging a candidate - but that's how it is there!

Interview Questions

There are n gas stations positioned along a circular road. Each has a limited supply of gas. You can only drive clockwise around the road. You start with zero gas. Knowing how much gas you need to get from each gas station to the next and how much gas you can get at each station, design an algorithm to find the gas station you need to start at to get all the way around the circle.

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There are several legacy applications, each integrated with other in a variety of fashions - like over web-service, or http or sockets or something else. How can we find out what those integrations are without going through code. Make suitable assumptions.

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What is the difference between REST API and Web-Service

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Aug 2010 in Bangalore (India) (took a day)

Interviews were tough. Most questions were for algorithms - it seems they are not interested in other things. The worst thing is, the recruitment team is absolutely shabby. No feedback for over 15 days!

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How would you implement hash function for <some question>

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.

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Easy Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Mar 2008 in Bangalore (India) (took 2 days)

Yahoo! came to our college as the campus hiring process. We had following rounds in the interview:
1. Written test: This was the tricky part, if you answer more Unix/Script related questions interviewer will select you for systems engineering regardless of your answer in Programming side (Probably because not many people will master this).
2. 3 technical discussions: Generic questions, few can be tricky
3. 1 programming round
4. HR Round.

Interview Questions

Search for a string in a file with efficiency O(1). (Trick: Ask more about the data being stored).

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.

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Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2010 in Bangalore (India) (took a day)

This was on campus in college. There was an aptitude test, with CS questions. It was pretty challenging, those preparing for GATE will find it easy. Then, there were 3 rounds of interviews, one programming test.

Interview Questions

explain how to search for particular word in a large text file

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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation and an IQ/Intelligence Test.

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Average Interview

Overall Negative Experience

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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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Mar 2010 in Bangalore (India) (took 2 weeks)

Interview Process was quick but I thought that the position was being oversold and the interviewing process was very unstructured. I had to fly in to the location and they didn't have the interviewer ready. A few interviewers walked in randomly to take the interview and one of them even had code written on paper. What kind of org has this level of planning for so called senior positions... I was disappointed and that was probably the reason why I didn't pursue it whole heartedly..

Interview Questions

At level in your application deployment will you implement load balancing?

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Implement a smart pointer class. Write code for a design pattern

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I Applied Online 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