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* Posted anonymously by interview candidates (updated Nov 20, 2009) Ratings are reflective of location and job title.

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Software Engineer at Yahoo!student candidate

Posted Nov 20, 2009

3.0
Average Interview
Overall Positive Experience Received and Accepted Offer

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

The HR people treat you very well, and feed you lunch before interviews begin. Interviewers were nice, and the interviews on the whole was organized well.

2 phone interviews : simple data structures and some OS/DB problems
4 interviews on site: First one was C and Java..was asked to write code.
Interview 2: data structures: Tricky problems which were not completely defined were asked, keep prompting for more details if you think the details provided are not enough. No code, only algo.
Interview 3: Systems stuff -- OS, distributed systems, DB
Interview 4 was more like a general discussion on various topics, but officially a Software Engg interview

Interview Questions

A server receives time stamped packets. Applications may ask for data at any time. Explain a data structure you would use to ensure reasonable lookup time.
Multiple servers access same file on a file server, describe a method to ensure synchronization

Other Details

I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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Software Development Engineer at Yahoo! student candidate

Posted Nov 12, 2009

Interviewed Nov 2009 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 3 days)

The hiring manager emailed me with the requirements and I was interested. I had two phone interviews followed by a in-person interview that lasted around 4 hours with 7 different people… Post a review to see full interview

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Analyst at Yahoo!

Posted Nov 3, 2009

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

Had a very good phone interview with the hiring manager. We talked about my previous finance experience and he seemed very pleased by it. Wasn't very technical. Then I had an in-person… Post a review to see full interview

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Software QA Engineer at Yahoo!

Posted Oct 9, 2009

Interviewed Sep 2009 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 1 week)

the inverviewer was a technical hiring manager. Unfortunately, I was thinking the first phone interview should be a HR guy. Therefore, I am a little surprised when the guy started to throw… Post a review to see full interview

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Web Developer at Yahoo!

Posted Sep 23, 2009

Interviewed Feb 2007 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 2 weeks)

My interview took all day long and exhausting. However, some people have been hired after interviews with a few people and finished within an hour.

Later I became a hiring manager and… Post a review to see full interview

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Program Manager at Yahoo!

Posted Sep 4, 2009

Interviewed Mar 2008 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 1 week)

Company seemed in the between the extremes of refocusing and out right chaos. There was a fair amount of hubris yet they seemed to be suffering from AGAD (Acute Google Anxiety Disorder). It… Post a review to see full interview

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Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo!

Posted Aug 22, 2009

Interviewed Dec 2008 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 1+ week)

The best interview experience in my career, and I've been to quite a few interviews.

After an email, I got a call for a phone screening. For some reason I was expecting HR person… Post a review to see full interview

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Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo!

Posted Aug 8, 2009

Interviewed Aug 2009 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 4 days)

I had 2 rounds of telephonic interviews:
Round 1:
Basic C++ questions
- Difference between new and malloc
- Virtual functions
- VTable
- Virtual Destructors
- REST/SOAP
- Difference… Post a review to see full interview

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Software Engineer at Yahoo!

Posted Jul 1, 2009

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… Post a review to see full interview

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Software Engineer at Yahoo!

Posted May 4, 2009

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… Post a review to see full interview

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