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Updated Feb 14, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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QA Engineer at Yahoo
Posted May 5, 2011
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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 Jan 2010 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 2 weeks)
first call was the general call from the HR..
second call was from some hiring manager ..
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Custom Brand Experiences Project Manager at Yahoo
Posted May 2, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 3 weeks)
I got a fast response from Yahoo after I applied for this position. They called me on Friday to arrange a telephone interview on Monday. I checked the interviewer's LinkIn profile and found out she was an inter HR that made me a bit concerned. The interview took place and the interviewer was nice, the questions were simple and standard. However I found it difficult to catch her English because she was clearly not British. I became a bit nervous after asking her to repeat her questions a few times. Also I can feel that she was getting frustrated. The interview did not go very smooth towards the end.
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Front End UI Developer at Yahoo
Posted Apr 27, 2011
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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 Nov 2010 in Sunnyvale, CA (took a day)
I got a call from Yahoo through a recruiter & it was a Contract Position.
Initially I got a call to know just basic information about myself and then they scheduled a telephonic interview after couple of days.
I was asked question mainly on js and js libraries and few on css.
I screwed up big time in that interview as few of my fundamentals were not clear.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo
Posted Apr 20, 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 Dec 2010 in Santa Clara, CA (took 2 days)
Phone interview was more about specifics of Java/J2EE technology.
1. What's the diff between interface and abstract class
2. Implement Fibonacci series. Can you implement the same using recursion? Which one is more efficient? why ?
3. What are the steps involved in creating a complete workflow of a module in Spring and Hibernate
4. What is dependency injection? Why is it good?
5. Explain many-to-many mapping concept using Hibernate
6. Write the query to find duplicates
1:1 interview had 3 rounds
1. You have a Employee class and Dept class. Give a complete design and implementation to get all Employees grouped by Departments
- Many-to Many mapping again with spring injections, they also checked why would you use certain data structures
2. Second round was based on the Producer Consumer problem and involved many threading concepts
3. Third round was based on design and performance oriented thinking. Let's say you had a 10Gigs of a text file and you were to collect a certain pattern of string and store it in DB. What was the most efficient way of doing it ?
The advice is:
Be good in Collections, Threads and Performance related questions
Work culture is good but very hectic. Agile, scrum methodologies are followed and there are pretty stringent deadlines. People are co-operative but one must have a lot of energy to find your way through gigantic code base and slightly complicated procedure to build and test the code. Good luck.
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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Human Resources Intern at Yahoo
Posted Apr 16, 2011
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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 Mar 2011 in Los Angeles, CA (took a day)
Applied online, and then received phone interview from the recruiter within one week. They are looking for MBA, which I am not. So finally they declined my application because the skills do not fit the project.
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QA Engineer at Yahoo
Posted Apr 15, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in San Jose, CA (took 2 days)
Highly technical, object oriented question, programming skills were tested.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Yahoo
Posted Apr 13, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 2+ weeks)
This was by far the best interview experience I had. I did two short phone interview which went pretty good, no weired questions, all fundamental and basic questions. Then I was invited for an onsite interview which was very well organized. The campus looks really nice, everything is so relaxed, and the interviewers are quite friendly. Questions are not too difficult, but definitely open ended and broad.
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Did not negotiate.
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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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Software Engineer at Yahoo
Posted Apr 6, 2011
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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 Mar 2011 (took a day)
I was contacted first by a recruiter and then by a manager about a position. The phone interview went smoothly, and I was invited for a campus interview.
I must say that I was not at the top of my shape. I had not interviewed for three years, and that morning I felt tired. I made a bug in one of the programming questions, and limped through another one. It was clear both to me and to them I guess that I would not get hired.
Nevertheless I was struck by how rude they were. One interviewer was asking "so where will you fit here?". Then they abruptly canceled the process before lunch and escorted me out (there was supposed to be one lunch interview and another one afterward). I'll never apply to Yahoo again.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Principal Engineer at Yahoo
Posted Apr 6, 2011
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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 Jan 2011 in Bangalore (India) (took a day)
*How to find out the inorder successor of a node in a tree??
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Technical Yahoo at Yahoo
Posted Apr 5, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2009 in Bellevue, WA (took 9 months)
I consider the 9 month contract I did as part of the "interview" as there's limitations as to what can really be discovered in a few hours of interview, compared to what's discovered about working with a person.
I had 1:1 and several people at a time for the interview when I interviewed for the contract position, where it was stated by the recruiting firm that they'd like to be able to convert someone, but such conversion was not a promise. After the contract was finished, I was interviewed by 2 managers that would be my manager and his direct report in the QA department: before being extended the full-time offer, I was on the chart under the regular developers, as I was working embedded with them.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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