Yahoo Interview Questions & Reviews in Sunnyvale, CA

Interview Details – Technical interview with coding questions.
data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, scalability
puzzles and brain teasers.

Dynamic programming, greedy algorithms, etc.

Interview Details – Got the interview from my campus. Had a phone interview of 45 minutes. The interviewer was very cool. Asked questions about threads and processes. Asked me to code the number of nodes in a binary tree. Then I had 4 rounds of onsite interviews. Interviewers were from different product groups. First interview I was asked to write a program to compare version numbers. Print out the highest version number. In the second interview I was asked to write a program to remove duplicates with different complexities and level order traversal of tree. Third interview was theory based nothing specific. Final interview I was asked to show producer consumer problem. Then I was asked to draw classes for flight reservation system.

Negotiation Details – Yeah I asked for 5000 more and settled for 3000 more on my base salary

Interview Details – yahoo interview was pretty typical and more traditional. but i know it differs by team. i had a phone interview with an engineering manager and a sr. software engineer. and then i had an onsite interview which consisted of meeting with HR person for like an hour who explained the process and then meeting real people for technical interviews. lunch was provided.

Interview Details – Very important: I had 2 interviews for 2 separate positions. In one I was interviewed by random people, and the other I was interviewed by my future team members. Guess which one game offer? The one where team members did interview.
Phone interview consisted mostly of Java core questions and may be be some threading. Was interviewed by my future manager.
On site, got interviewed by many people:
1) Javascript - language knowledge, and I think solve a problem
2) Java - language knowledge, and I think solve a problem
3) Threading, general how would you design a system.

No Google/Microsoft type questions.

When I was already working at Yahoo my team members when did interviews asked to solve real life problems which we had in our product and then saw if that matched our solutions.

Good to know things: design patterns, threading, when you choose your language then tricky things in your language: example: PhP (magic methods), Javascript (closures, vardiac functions), Java (inner classes)

Interview Details – Had to constantly keep in touch with HR.

Negotiation Details – Not much change in salary, but some negotiation took place.

Interview Details – I had applied through college career site. The software engineer from Yahoo contacted me in about two weeks after my application. She was friendly and was discussing about her team and her work. Then she asked me about my projects and my experience with the technologies mentioned on my resume. Then, she asked me basic technical questions from Linux, Java, DBMS, and Software Engineering.

Interview Details – Went on campus for the interview. Everyone was very friendly and things went smoothly. The campus is very nice, although it seemed kind of quiet when I was there (although that may be because it was a Friday). I got interviewed by four people one after another, each on different topics. The questions were of Average difficulty, and the interviewers were very patient and friendly, helping you along when you were stuck and giving you hints at times without being too lenient.

Interview Details – Initial phone interview, short follow-up, and then an offer from HR.

Interview Details – To start with the HR at Yahoo are very helpful. They help solve all the doubts you have. On the day of my interview I along with 10-12 other candidates were taken into a room where there was lunch and a small presentation on what company does. It was followed by 4 rounds of technical interview. The topics ranging from Data Structures and Algos to design question and Optimization questions.

The interviewers were quite friendly. Overall a great experience.

Negotiation Details – Pretty good. My manager was really helpful and understood why I was negotiation and for how much. Just waiting for the final offer letter.:)