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Updated Apr 24, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Engineer at Yahoo
Posted Mar 16, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2009 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 2+ weeks)
Applied in career fair. Got a phone i/v. Was asked about basic stuff in Java and databases. Went for an onsite interview after a couple of weeks. Had 4 interviews. 1st guy asked about finding duplicates in an array and boundary conditions for my proposed solution. 2nd guy asked about my project and then a circular queue problem of detecting full and empty conditions. 3rd guy asked a problem of creating an amount X with the least number of coins in a currency. 4th guy asked for an implementation of 8 queens problem and designing a game of chess! I messed up in the 4th one and I guess hence couldn't convert the call.
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Software Engineer at Yahoo
Posted Mar 13, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2009 in Beijing, Beijing (China) (took 2+ weeks)
Just like other interview for software positions, I was asked to coding on paper to solve some common quiz in algorithm and information retrieval. Except for that, some open questions are also asked. But none of them are not very tough. If your working experience if related to the position you applied, some technical detail will also be asked.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Software Engineer at Yahoo
Posted Dec 23, 2009
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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 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.
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Software Engineer at Yahoo
Posted Dec 2, 2009
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 in Sunnyvale, CA (took a day)
Applied online. Two weeks later, got an email inviting me to a recruitment event, with 9 other people.
Started with a brief presentation of the company and the desk we were interviewed for, and then each one of us had to present themselves in front of everybody else, concluding by why we chose Yahoo and this position.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Yahoo
Posted Oct 3, 2009
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2009 (took 2 weeks)
The process started with an email from a Yahoo recruiter looking for software engineers, and while happy at my current job, I at least wanted to see what Yahoo had to offer. After the phone interview with a hiring manager and another developer that went well, they requested that I come out to Sunnyvale for an in person interview. They paid for everything, airfare, car rental, and a nice hotel. The interview lasted ~3.5 hours and I met with a development team and some other business people. The interview mostly consisted of white-board coding and a few questions about my experience.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Software Engineer at Yahoo
Posted Sep 19, 2009
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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 Apr 2008 (took 4+ weeks)
2 phone interviews, mostly screening of resume plus some technical questions.
then 1 on-site interview, with 8-9 people from 3 different groups, lasting for 8~9 hours(including lunch).60% technical problems, white board coding, 30% questions concerning your working experience, 10% behavior questions,
seems everyone has his own focuses and interests and topics is broad.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer at Yahoo
Posted Jul 1, 2009
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2008 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 3 days)
i had two phone screens which were fairly simple, asking questions such as what are the fundamentals of OOP, diff btwn OOP and scripting languages like php. then i went in for the on site interview which was all day and involved 8 poeople. two of them asked problem solving questions which werent too difficult, the rest personality questions.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Yahoo
Posted Jun 10, 2009
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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 2008 in San Jose, CA (took 2 weeks)
I received a call from Yahoo after I had applied on their job site. There were 2 phone interviews and then I was called onsite. The phone interviews were pretty basic and covered stuff I had mentioned on my resume and basic C++ and unix questions. The onsite interviews were above average. I was asked all traversal type of a Binary tree. Question about some Unix tools, shell scripting. Couple of C++ string manipulation problems.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Yahoo
Posted May 4, 2009
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2009 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 2 weeks)
it was one of the worst interviews i ever underwent -- very unprofessional people in yahoo mobile...now i know why yahoo is going down and down and down. lol none of the people i was interviewed for entire day asked me a single technical question. no c, no c++ nothing. no ds. no algo. pfff...i declined the offer.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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