Skip to contentSkip to footer
  • Community
  • Jobs
  • Companies
  • Salaries
  • For Employers
      Notifications

      Loading...

      Elevate your career

      Discover your earning potential, land dream jobs, and share work-life insights anonymously.

      employer cover photo
      employer logo
      employer logo

      Yahoo

      Is this your company?

      About
      Reviews
      Pay & benefits
      Jobs
      Interviews
      Interviews
      Related searches: Yahoo reviews | Yahoo jobs | Yahoo salaries | Yahoo benefits | Yahoo conversations
      Yahoo interviewsYahoo Service Reliability Engineer interviewsYahoo interview


      Glassdoor

      • About / Press
      • Awards
      • Blog
      • Research
      • Contact Us
      • Guides

      Employers

      • Free Employer Account
      • Employer Center
      • Employers Blog

      Information

      • Help
      • Guidelines
      • Terms of Use
      • Privacy & Ad Choices
      • Do Not Sell Or Share My Information
      • Cookie Consent Tool
      • Security

      Work With Us

      • Advertisers
      • Careers
      Download the App

      • Browse by:
      • Companies
      • Jobs
      • Locations
      • Communities
      • Recent Posts

      Copyright © 2008-2026. Glassdoor LLC. "Glassdoor," "Worklife Pro," "Bowls," and logo are proprietary trademarks of Glassdoor LLC.

      Company Bowl sample

      Want the inside scoop on your own company?

      Check out your Company Bowl for anonymous work chats.

      Bowls

      Get actionable career advice tailored to you by joining more bowls.

      Followed companies

      Stay ahead in opportunities and insider tips by following your dream companies.

      Job searches

      Get personalized job recommendations and updates by starting your searches.

      Top companies for "Compensation and Benefits" near you

      avatar
      Amazon
      3.7★Compensation & Benefits
      avatar
      Google
      4.5★Compensation & Benefits
      avatar
      Amazon Web Services
      3.9★Compensation & Benefits
      avatar
      PayPal
      3.7★Compensation & Benefits

      Service Reliability Engineer Interview

      May 10, 2013
      Anonymous employee
      Sunnyvale, CA

      Other Service Reliability Engineer Interview Reviews for Yahoo

      Service Reliability Engineer Interview

      Feb 26, 2017
      Anonymous employee
      Sunnyvale, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Accepted offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Yahoo (Sunnyvale, CA) in Mar 2013

      Interview

      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 questions [1]

      Question 1

      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.
      1 Answer
      1
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Yahoo (Sunnyvale, CA) in Jan 2017

      Interview

      Applied on linkedin and got a call from recruiter. we had a brief discussion regarding my interests and opportunities in yahoo. He asked for the best time for having an initial round of a tech interview. On the day of interview, I was interviewed by a manager and his team member. The phone call went for 30 minutes and the interview was some what on basic linux and networking skills. I cleared the interview and was proceeded to final round which is a hangout interview. This went for 90 minuted and the panel was constituted by 4 members. After a couple of days i was offered the job

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      troubleshooting, networking, TCP/IP model, Basic Linux skills
      Answer question