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Updated May 17, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo
Posted Jun 2, 2010
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2.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2010 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 4 weeks)
I got a call from a software developer who spoke in a monotone, was difficult to understand and hung up on me without saying "bye". He didn't want to tell me about the position and always wanted to call back. I gave up and e-mailed him that I wasn't interested. Two weeks later, a Yahoo! recruiter contacted me, asking if I heard from anybody at Yahoo! yet and if I was still interested. I was still interested but was not interested in that first software developer. I got an e-mail from a second software developer with a vague job description for the Yahoo! Mail group which was looking for anybody from a rock star new grad to somebody with 15+ years of experience plus "only true ninjas need apply" (exact quote). I got a call from the second software developer. He was pleasant and asked me basic questions about Java interfaces, Java static members, Java inheritance, JavaScript innerHTML, JavaScript document.all, design patterns and big O notation. I answered all questions but told him that big O notation and design patterns were not very interesting to me so he asked very few questions on those topics. A day later, I got an e-mail rejection from a person in HR. I wrote a followup e-mail to the second software developer but no response yet. My general impression is that Yahoo! has Google-envy: they want to build a rep where their hiring process is needlessly long, illogical, arbitrary, rude and obscure so they can be just like Google!
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Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Yahoo Labs at Yahoo
Posted May 29, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2009 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 3 weeks)
Interacted with very professional and fun recruiter who gave me the impression they really care about me. The phone interview didn't seem very thorough (I've gone through harder ones). The on-site interview went well, I gave a presentation and talked to about 8 people. It seemed like a fun place with interesting problems to work on.
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Negotiation Details
They made an initial high salary offer and made it even higher a few days later, without me even asking for it. They also gave me the opportunity to talk to many people on the phone to get a better picture about the job.
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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 Presentation.
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Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo
Posted May 20, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 in Sunnyvale, CA (took a day)
While happy with my current job, I got connected to the recruiter through LinkedIn who forwarded my resume to one of the teams. I had a phone interview with Yahoo! Mail Search team. Questions asked were something like finding possible substrings in the string and some C++ concept questions. The interviewer was the worst interviewer I have ever experienced. I was pretty sure that she didn't bother going through my resume before the phone interview. She was very rude and was not paying attention to my answers. At the end, we ran out of time and she didn't let me ask questions because she was in hurry to get off the phone.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior Financial Analyst at Yahoo
Posted May 14, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 3 weeks)
The interview process consisted of an HR phone screen, followed by two more phone screens by the manager and his peer. This was followed by six in person interviews on-site. Lastly, there was a final in person interview on a different day with the VP.
The team was very smart and friendly. The interviews were more geared toward understanding my background and what relevant experience I bring to the position. HR was very cordial and scheduled interviews per my availability.
There were some mini-case/technical type questions, but it was largely a fit assessment exercise. The VP had a more incisive interview style. But it was still not too difficult to handle if well prepared.
Received positive feedback through out the interview process including congratulatory emails from HR and my would-be manager.
However, in the end they decided to extend an offer to another candidate who was a better overall fit. I was a bit miffed, but I don't have any regrets as far as the overall interview experience. It was a great experience.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Systems Engineer at Yahoo
Posted May 2, 2010 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2008 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 1 week)
Started with an initial phone screen. Interviewer was knowledgeable about the position and asked many pointed questions. Nothing too complicated but certainly enough to weed out the cruft.
On site interview was composed of several 1:1 interviews with the hiring manager and members of the hiring group. More of a deep dive of candidate knowledge and personality.
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Negotiation Details
Yahoo! does tend to be open to negotiation but don't expect them to offer significantly more than the competition.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Architect at Yahoo
Posted Apr 4, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 2 days)
An employee referred me to an Architect level software engineering position within the company. A couple weeks after he forwarded my resume to the hiring manager, I received an initial phone call from the hiring manager.
The hiring manager was pleasant and very easy to speak with. We made plans for phone interviews and on-site interviews. The manager sent me an official job description.
The job description clearly indicated that the job was an "architect" level position. However, my on-site invitation referred to the position as a "Sr Principal Engineer" role. Later, the recruiter verbally confirmed that Yahoo would offer me a "Principal Engineer" position.
Is this a bait-n-switch act. I don't know for sure, but I don't like the initial feelings I have about it. Over the course of a week, the architect job has disappeared and has rematerialized as a job title 2 or 3 levels lower. This simply does not agree with my initial expectations for the job role and title.
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Reason for Declining
I have decided to decline the offer if we cannot resolve this job role/title problem. Of course, I have no leverage once I've joined, so it is better to ask for what I really want at this point.
Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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QA Engineer at Yahoo
Posted Mar 23, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 3 weeks)
Very professional. Initial phone screen was quite easy - few questions about data structures and algorithm fundamentals. The on-site process included four 1:1 interviews broken down into categories such as Networks, DS & Algorithms, Testing, and Databases/General Concepts. Be prepared to write some code.
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Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Front End Developer at Yahoo
Posted Mar 22, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 4 weeks)
This was a generic corporate interview. However, from considerable experience, I can say that the staff of recruiters is not very professional at Yahoo. It's too bad the weak link in the process is also the gate keeper. One example is that the scheduled a half day of interviews for me but NEVER told me! Another time they scheduled an interview on the wrong day so I showed up and nobody knew I was coming. I have friends inside Yahoo who have run into problems from their side as well.
As for the phone screen and interview, it was generic. Each person asked me their own set of technical questions, etc.etc...
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Service Engineer at Yahoo
Posted Mar 22, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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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.
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Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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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
Average Interview
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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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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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