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Interviewed Mar 2008 in Bangalore (India) (took 2 days)

Yahoo! came to our college as the campus hiring process. We had following rounds in the interview:
1. Written test: This was the tricky part, if you answer more Unix/Script related questions interviewer will select you for systems engineering regardless of your answer in Programming side (Probably because not many people will master this).
2. 3 technical discussions: Generic questions, few can be tricky
3. 1 programming round
4. HR Round.

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Search for a string in a file with efficiency O(1). (Trick: Ask more about the data being stored).

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2009 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 2 weeks)

Both were phone interviews they didnot call for onsite after second round. Both interviews lasted 45 mins
First interview was straight forward screening interview . Interviewer just wanted to check if I knew basic tools and basic concepts about debugging. simple questions about what is ACL , If you have a network problem how will you go about debugging it.

Second interview was a bad experience. First of all the interviewer called 45 minutes late saying he forget he had to call me. Then for 10 mins he was wondering what to ask me. Then he picked up a web project I had worked on and started asking silly and random debuggng questions. The questions were so general I really didnot know what he was looking for whether he was looking for any specific tools or names ? The questions didnot seem to test my skills to much extent. The whole interview had a subjective feel to it and I cannot say they rejected me as I gave wrong answers in second interview rather he didnot like my answers.