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Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates (updated Feb 2, 2010).
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Program Manager at Yahoo!
Posted Feb 2, 2010
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2.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 (took 4+ weeks)
There were several phone interviews prior to a determination to move forward with a flight to Sunnyvale. I had 6 phone interviews and at the last moment the 7th phone interview was cancelled.
I found the feedback from the Recruiter was perplexing.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Sales at Yahoo!
Posted Jan 20, 2010
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2.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 (took 6 weeks)
The individuals who I interviews with were intelligent and very kind. Everyone involved was very open, communicative and genuinely seemed to love their job and the people they work with. The HR team was prompt with feedback and advice. Although I was disappointed that I did not get the job, I am very thankful for the opportunity and would definitely interview with Yahoo! again. The whole process left an impression of great people and a class act company.
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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 Group/Panel Interview.
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Front End Software Engineer at Yahoo!
Posted Jan 4, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2009 (took a day)
Talked to what seemed to be a fairly young software engineer on the phone. It was a long time since I'd done an interview, and I stumbled a bit. A lot of questions were in the realm of browser quirks (which I'm not very good at remembering), and sometimes it seemed like he was looking for a specific phrase rather than a complete answer.
No call back, no follow up.
Oddly, no interaction with an HR person either before or after the phone interview.
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Architect at Yahoo!
Posted Dec 30, 2009
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2009 in Bangalore (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
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Software Engineer at Yahoo!
Posted Dec 23, 2009
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2009 (took a day)
The onsite was made up of 4 interviews
1. Coding
2. Algorithms
3. Web/DB/OS
4. OOD
1. In coding, I was asked to write an algo and code for finding unique key-value pairs in a large file.
2. Basic algorithm questions.
3. NDA
4. Design a class for card games like Poker, Ono etc.
The interviews seem to get more difficult as the day goes by but that is because in graduate school, there isn't more emphasis on OOD. In addition, the last interviewer expected me to know about Design Patterns.
I would recommend that you brush up on OOP and OOD, they seem to emphasize that more than the usual Algo/DS combo.
They gave no feedback on why I got no offer but probably because the earliest joining dates were in June/July.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Product Marketing Manager at Yahoo!
Posted Dec 18, 2009
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 (took 2 weeks)
Quick scheduling and timely meeting with hiring manager.
Standard advice of being prepared applies. However, be extra thorough on job requirements and product, from competitors, to market position, to industry. Basically read up and know every aspect.
If you were to practice, basically find someone who uses the product and have a long conversation with them about how to improve. And don't be constrained by the limitations you may read about Yahoo in the news. I guess no one wants a downer to come into the company.
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Account Executive at Yahoo!
Posted Dec 17, 2009
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2.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2008 in New York, NY (took 1 week)
I came in for an interview with a sales manager. Talked about my past experiences and the details of the position. It was more of a personality type of interview. After talking for a half hour, they took you out to the sales floor to sit with a rep for a few minutes, then if they liked you they asked you to put together a powerpoint presentation for the second interview. The second interview was with the director of sales, asked some mildly challenging questions and had you present your powerpoint slides. Asked you to sell him something.
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non-negotiable
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer at Yahoo!
Posted Dec 2, 2009
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4.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 in Sunnyvale, CA (took a day)
Applied online. Two weeks later, got an email inviting me to a recruitment event, with 9 other people.
Started with a brief presentation of the company and the desk we were interviewed for, and then each one of us had to present themselves in front of everybody else, concluding by why we chose Yahoo and this position.
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Product Manager at Yahoo!
Posted Nov 29, 2009
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2009 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 4+ weeks)
I had an initial phone interview with the Hiring Manager who was asked questions mostly about why I wanted to work in high tech and why Yahoo! She also grilled me on my experiences with Yahoo! Front Page - the group I was interviewing with - and asked about changes I would make, thoughts on recent developments, etc. On site, I had 4 1:1 interviews: 2 with Product Managers in the same group, 1 with the Hiring Manager, and 1 with a VP of Engineering. The PMs and Hiring Manager focused on my knowledge of Yahoo!, what I liked and didn't like about the new Front Page, what my favorite Yahoo! properties were, what I used most often, why I didn't use Yahoo! mail, etc. The VP of Engineering focused more on why this job, why Yahoo!, why Product Management, etc.
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Engineer at Yahoo!
Posted Nov 26, 2009
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3.0
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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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