Yahoo Software Engineer Interview

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.