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Yahoo Software Engineer Interview at Yahoo
Accepted Offer – Reviewed May 14, 2013 New
Interview Details – The hiring process was a mess because I was to be a part of a company Yahoo was taking over
Interview Question – Improve performance of a multi threaded application, prevent the deadlock and use synclocks Answer Question
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Senior Software Quality Engineer at Yahoo
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Boca Raton, FL – Reviewed May 12, 2013 New
Interview Details – The hiring process was a mess because I was to be a part of a company Yahoo was taking over
Interview Question – Improve performance of a multi threaded application, prevent the deadlock and use synclocks Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Yes, Yahoo needs technical talent. They were not flexible with the salary but I was able to negotiate other things I wanted.
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Service Reliability Engineer at Yahoo
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Sunnyvale, CA Mar 2013 – Reviewed May 10, 2013 New
Interview Details – Contract position. First a written screen which took about two hours to complete, but nothing in it was difficult to research and answer if you didn't already know it.
Interview Question – In the second stage a phone interview the following situation was presented: You have 5 Apache web servers sitting behind a load balancer. They are pegged as far as load and are not responding to page requests within agreed to SLAs. Tell me the steps you'd take to debug the problem. View Answer
Negotiation Details – No Negotiation. Contract provider called next working day (Phone interview was on a Friday) and made an offer which I accepted.
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Summer Technical Intern at Yahoo
Declined Offer – Reviewed May 8, 2013 New
Interview Details – Was contacted by email a month after applying. I had a phone interview with 2 separate teams. Both went well. Had two second round phone interviews, one with each team, about a week after the first one. Went well also. I was told by HR I should know the result for both teams within a week. Now, it has been almost 3 weeks since that and I've contacted HR multiple times through email with no response. When I called them they told me they are still interviewing other candidates and I should know the result soon. I have a deadline for other offers so I'll have to accept those offers because Yahoo has a horrible interview process and they do not care about any time constraints or the fact that the interviewee has other deadlines. Don't apply for this company, you'll be wasting your time. I don't know what's going to happen to my result but if they end up offering me the position over the next week or so I will decline it.
Interview Question – Nothing difficult, basic questions including topics like systems programming, web servers, some perl questions. All based on resume pretty much. Answer Question
Reason for Declining – Horrible interview process, they do not care about deadlines and take their sweet time to get back to you (if they even do get back to you).
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Search Quality Analyst at Yahoo
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Apr 26, 2013
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The first interview is over the phone. They ask typical 'get to know' you questions about your background and why you're interested in working for them. After the first phone interview, there was a Quality Analyst exam that I to take and submit within 48hrs of receiving it.
After the exam there was one more phone interview before the onsite interview.
Interview Question – Question was asked: "If you were on an island and could only bring 3 things, what would you bring?" Answer Question
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Software NEw College Grad at Yahoo
No Offer – Reviewed Apr 20, 2013
Interview Details – Got invited for an onside interview through a college job fair. Fair Java conceptual questions (it was my very first interview, so I missed some simply because of nerves),, with some discussion of my background. Everyone was generally nice and very welcoming. Received a quick tour of the office afterwards, and that was it. Total time was around 1.5 hrs.
Interview Question – Questions were not too hard (coding singleton, exceptions, and a simple program using the % operator) Answer Question
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Technical Yahoo at Yahoo
No Offer – Interviewed in Apr 2013 – Reviewed Apr 13, 2013
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I dropped my resume in university career fair. And I was contacted quickly after that. I got two interviews, both phone screens.Interview Details – I submitted my resume through the job fair of my university. I got the email of the first interview after more than one month.
For the first interview, I was asked some general questions about how to design a problem using different kinds of distributed and parallel tools, like Hadoop, Hadoop PIG, and MPI. I think the reason is that I have previous related projects. No online coding.
For the second interview, the interviewer is a system architect. And we only discussed several question of Hadoop and HDFS. Also some general questions about OOP
Interview Question – Hadoop and HDFS Answer Question
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Software Engineer Intern at Yahoo
No Offer – Interviewed in Mar 2013 – Reviewed Apr 12, 2013
Interview Details – The interviews of Yahoo! are not regular. They may ask various kinds of questions. What I encountered is: How to design a survey website? After answering, he was not satisfactory and rejected me in 2 hours...
Interview Question – How to design a survey website? Answer Question
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Visual Designer at Yahoo
No Offer – Interviewed in Sunnyvale, CA Mar 2013 – Reviewed Apr 10, 2013
Interview Details – Had a phone interview that was only 30 minutes long, pretty basic questions. The next day they offered to fly me out to their Sunnyvale office. Had a full day of interviews, starting with a panel presentation and 6 one-on-one interviews. The interview was very easy and casual. Was very surprised with how trivial the questions were actually. Campus is very cool, people seem casual, which is nice.
Interview Question – Nothing out of the ordinary, mainly asked about specific design decisions in regards to my portfolio. Was expecting much worse. No test or anything. Answer Question
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Summer Technical Intern at Yahoo
No Offer – Interviewed in Mar 2013 – Reviewed Apr 10, 2013
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Dropped an resume at university job fair, received an email about interview one month later. Since I am interviewing with yahoo mobile team, the first interview mainly focused on the knowledge about Android, also includes some basic Java knowledge questions. One week later, I had a second interview. Surprisingly, almost all the questions are about Java knowledge as well.
After the second interview, since I have other offers approaching deadline. I sent several emails regarding my situation, in hope for that I can have their decision earlier. However, after two weeks of wait, finally I got one email from the recruiter. The email is very vague. So she said that "the feedback was positive, but I am waiting to hear if there are additional teams that would be interest in discussing opportunities with you further". Without mentioning their actual decision.
I don't know what's going on with Yahoo. But what I guess is that they actually had the position full.
Interview Question – We asked a question about weak reference in C++, since I am not familiar with C++, I failed to ask that question. View Answer
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