Yahoo Software Engineer Intern Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – The interviews of Yahoo! are not regular. They may ask various kinds of questions. What I encountered is: How to design a survey website? After answering, he was not satisfactory and rejected me in 2 hours...

Interview Details – I submitted my resume through the job fair of my university. I got the email of the first interview after more than one month.

For the first interview, I was asked some general questions about how to design a problem using different kinds of distributed and parallel tools, like Hadoop, Hadoop PIG, and MPI. I think the reason is that I have previous related projects. No online coding.

After the first interview, I got the email of next step within only 2 hours.

For the second interview, the interviewer is a system architect. And we only discussed several question of Hadoop and HDFS. Also some general questions about OOP. No online coding.

Then the next day, I got the offer.

Reason for Declining – Got another offer from a better company

Interview Details – I submitted my resume at a career fair at my school and received a tech assessment on the spot. A recruiter emailed me about a week later to schedule a phone interview. The interview consisted of both discussion about my previous projects as well as a couple technical questions. Nothing too unexpected and the interviewer seemed genuinely interested in my previous work and my possible contributions to Yahoo. Received a call a couple days later about an offer. The recruiter and interviewer were both courteous and intelligent. It was a very difficult decision to decline the offer (excellent project assignment and compensation). Overall a very smooth interview process.

Interview Details – Spoke with recruiter at a career fair and handed in my resume. Was contact a few weeks later to set up a phone interview. First round interviewed with a Software Engineer. Asked basic front end questions regarding HTML,CSS,Javascript. Was contacted immediately to set up second round phone interview. Spoke with Hiring Manager and was not asked any technical questions. Only web optimization questions and culture/personal work questions

Interview Details – The first interview was mainly talking about projects worked on. The second got more technical with me writing some code in Java. No language specific questions but some very basic algorithmic questions. Other questions included questions about exceptions. Both interviewers didn't seem too interested or critical. No difficult behavioral questions.

Interview Details – A front-end female recruiter gave me the interview. She asked me some questions about hash map and OOD and I was asked to design a parking lot. Then she asked me some front-end questions and I tried really hard to remember. Finally she said she will turn me to some backend guy to see how we can proceed.

Interview Details – Gave resume at career fair, set up a phone interview

Interview Details – Drop resume on a job fair, two 1:1 interview, and on the offer

Interview Details – Had one quick phone interview. They went over a lot of basic technical concepts, but the interviewer seemed most interested in personal projects. I specifically recall emphasis on sorting functions.