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Updated Jan 20, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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Negative	18%

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Dec 2010 (took 2+ weeks)

All in all it was quite a good interview with yahoo.. Tech questions are not that hard.

Interview Questions

Implement a Hash table?

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Design a BPO (call center)?

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Other Details

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

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jun 2011 in Bangalore (India) (took 1 week)

It started with Phone interview, interviewer asked very basic questions... After 1 week was called for
1:1 interview
Position was for automation engineer... But am into Manual testing which was clearly mentioned in my resume and also told in phone interview

Even though i was called for 1:1 interview. The interviewer asked all basic questions on testinf, drilled me for 1.5 hrs and after was told by HR am not suited for thier business requirement

They have serious flaw in hiring... before callling people , kindly go through resume properly and check if they are suited for the job or not

All in all, utterly disappointed

Interview Questions

basics on testing, stress, load testing

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Other Details

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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2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Aug 2009 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 weeks)

Yahoo! came to my university to recruit, and my first interview was on campus. They flew me up a week later to their headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA and I had 4 interviews each 30 minutes. They responded within 2 days of the interview that I received an offer. Recruiting was fast and efficient.

Interview Questions

How does Yahoo! make money? Name 4 ways.

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed May 2011 in Richardson, TX (took a day)

I was interviewed by the hiring manager who was later joined by the network architect from his team. It was purely technical interview and lasted for an hour.

Interview Questions

What is the protocol number of OSPF?

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What can be a reason for the OSPF neighbor ship failing after EX-START adjacency?

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Negotiation Details

they pay a decent amount. i didn't negotiate anything. i tried changing the job location but they wanted somebody who can work in Dallas, Texas and the job offer was only for that location.

Other Details

I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Background Check.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jun 2011 in Santa Clara, CA (took a day)

I was approached by Yahoo recruiter, and she said It's a multi-national, multi-center build out, and they are interested in people with a strong Unix background (Redhat preferred) and solid skills in monitoring, automation, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.

Interview Questions

what is inode number of newly created directory?

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if file permissions is set to 755, is that file can be accessed by anybody

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed May 2011 in Champaign, IL (took 2 days)

I was recruited through my University and first had a phone interview which consisted of basic OOP questions and my experiences. I was brought on-site a week later and had 5 1:1 interviews. First one was just getting to know the hierarchy of the company. Second one was reverse engineering - programming errors were provided and solutions had to be found. Third was algorithm and logic based. Fourth was OS design and problem solving. The last one was SQL. Overall pretty heavy on the technical side with a 10 minute break.

Interview Questions

Design a hotel class

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Describe the difference between GROUP BY and ORDER BY

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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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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed May 2011 in San Jose, CA (took a day)

Internal referral is somewhat required to get my resume noticed. Then phone interviews with the team for 1.5 hours. One week after, get the invite to visit their Sunnyvale campus. 6 interviews in row, with the last one as an unexpected excel test.

Interview Questions

excel test

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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 Skills Test.

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1.0

Very Easy Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

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

Be yourself. The most obvious thing in a group presentation is when you try to fake it or be somebody you're not.

Interview Questions

I was told to give a presentation. People had laptops and cellphones during my presentation, at this point I realized it didn't matter much so I rattled on through my presentation.

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Negotiation Details

Not much, I asked for a 5% more and was shut down, I asked for more options and was told no. They told me, I was given the average salary on the team.

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation and a Background Check.

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1.0

Very Easy Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jan 2010 in Santa Clara, CA (took 4 days)

Pretty straight forward. I had interviews with 3 different teams and had all 3 offers for different positions. Software Engineer, Research Engineer and Quality Engineer.

There is a serious flaw in hiring process in terms of they ask only listed questions given by management or sort of their own in the field they are skillful and completely overlook your experience. They dont care much about talent but just check whether you satisfy their technology needs.

Interview Questions

java, database query processing, search engine, mathematical problem they want to solve

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Negotiation Details

Just accepted the research position. Definitely should have negotiated knowing the amount of work I did compared to compensation and treatment I received from my manager.