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Updated May 29, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Training Coordinator at Yammer
Posted May 29, 2012
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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 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took 4 days)
I applied for a job on Linked in, and was contacted by a Yammer recruiter over email. Had first phone interview with recruiter. She asked about my experience, background, interest, and salary requirements. She let me know later that day that the hiring manager would like to schedule a phone interview for the next day. Had phone interview the next day with hiring manager, who was very pleasant, we discussed the position and my experience, and what my long-term goals were. She asked if I was available for a Skype interview immediately following with another trainer. This person asked how I kept myself organized and how I used social media. After the phone interviews, which took place on a Wednesday, an in-person interview was set up for the following Monday. I met with a VP of Sales Ops and the sales training manager. They both gave me hypothetical scenario questions (How would you organize a sales kickoff? What activities would you plan for a training class?) and also both people asked me for a situation where I'd failed, and what happened.
I asked about the salary range available for the position and they said they were "still figuring that out".
Overall, it was a fast, fair, and reasonably pleasant experience. They got back to me the next day.
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Analyst at Yammer
Posted May 9, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2012 (took 2 days)
I applied online and had a phone screen with HR discussing my background. The second phone interview was with a senior member of the team. He asked me probability questions about dice and time. There was also a question about the correlation between email length and response rates on dating sites.
The interviewer said that I answered the die question correctly but I could not answer the time question. When HR gave me feedback afterwards, I was told that I struggled with the die question but I answered it correctly without any hints from the interviewer. Either the interviewer can't get their candidates straight or they simply make up reasons to reject you.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Sales Development Representative at Yammer
Posted Apr 29, 2012
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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 Apr 2012 (took 2 days)
I was introduced to the Sales manager, and they set up a phone interview very quickly. They were extremely friendly and that calmed my nerves throughout the call. However, we realized that it wasn't a great mutual fit, and that was that.
Through my research, they seem like they're doing really great, and I've heard great things about their culture as well. Best of luck to them.
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Product Management at Yammer
Posted Apr 23, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 2011 (took 3 weeks)
My interview consisted of a basic phone screening by a recruiter who asked one or two questions and then asked me, “What would you like to know?” Be ready to turn it into a “reverse interview” conversation where you ask questions while interjecting your relevant background/skills. Step 2 was an assignment. I took a few days to prepare a professional document/presentation. Step 3 I interview in person with leadership. Step 4, I came back for a final interview with the team.
Everything went fairly well up until the team interview. The recruiter didn’t seem very polished when communicating via email, but that was the only minor red flag. However, the team members turned out to be very arrogant. (I’ve seen this with MBA admissions interviews as well where alumni get an inflated ego about themselves when on the other side of the interview table and then set unrealistically high expectations for everyone else.) I got the sense that the team members asked questions with specific answers in mind, not realizing how broad their question actually was, then getting disappointed when you don’t magically travel the same logical path they had in mind. Particularly unfriendly was the Statistician interviewer. First off, I could sense some friction between him and the Product Mgmt team for which I interviewed and I guess this was a chance to show his dominance in numbers. Anyway, I’ve often been told that it’s OK to take a moment to pause and think through a question. Not with this guy. I got the first question right immediately. I stumbled slightly on the next and he jumped in quickly that then invalidated my eventually ability to answer it. Then he got very impatient as a I worked through the third question.
Honestly, I was upset when I didn’t get the offer, but only because I really liked the product. Had I accepted, there would’ve been concerns about the team. They didn’t impress me that much in terms of skills or friendliness. (On the flip side, Google’s team did impress me and seemed far more friendly.) If you think about Yammer’s success, a lot of it comes from a solid strategy - focus on doing one thing really well and rapidly iterate w/ A/B testing. Yammer has done great, but after meeting people from a few teams, I can’t help but feel there was some luck involved based on the strategy set forth very early. It’s easy to have a great culture when money is rolling in. I would not be surprised to see this company start to self-distruct into office politics in about 5 years when they can’t keep growing at an exponential pace. Until then, enjoy the great benefits, prestige, and the ride to an IPO. Then, cash out and start shopping around for another job when you start to see the culture crumble in the face of adversity.
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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 a Skills Test.
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Senior Software Engineer at Yammer
Posted Apr 13, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 weeks)
Overall, it was a confusing and frustrating process. I was contacted by a Yammer recruiter who had seen my profile on LinkedIn and said they were interested in my web development skills. After a positive phone screening session with one for their engineers, I was invited to come in for a face-to-face interview. It lasted 3 long hours were I was pelted with numerous poorly-worded questions. Instead of asking "How would you do X?", it would often be "What is X?" or "Define Y". Basically, they spent more time testing my knowledge of acronyms and textbook definitions, than properly evaluating my technical knowledge. I was told afterwards they would get back to me by the next day. I then did not hear from them for a week. After that I was told that I had interviewed for the WRONG POSITION, and they would like me to come back and interview with the correct group. Foolishly, I agreed.
I then had an hour session with a couple of engineers and did really well. I was able to answer all their questions and they seemed quite satisfied with my answers. I heard a lot of responses like "Yeah, that's exactly how I would do it" and "That's the answer we were looking for." Afterwards the manager came in and proceeded to ask me even more technical questions. Once again, they were worded poorly and had little or nothing to do with my actual skills. Any correct answers I gave would be followed by a demand to list all alternative ways to accomplish the same thing.
Why was the manager even trying to evaluate me technically? Shouldn't she have trusted her engineers to do that? At one point she handed me a laptop and told me to write some code. I was not familiar with the text editor provided or any of the other tools available on the machine. After struggling to produce something for a few minutes, she gave up and the interview was over. I was once again told I would have an answer the next day. They didn't contact me until several days later.
The whole process seemed chaotic and disorganized. I was never quite sure what they were looking for. Engineers should be trusted to do technical evaluations and managers should evaluate the candidate's personality and attitude. Would have turned the job down even if they offered it to me.
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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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Data Analytics at Yammer
Posted Mar 25, 2012
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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 Feb 2012 (took 2 weeks)
On campus interview followed by a phone interview, both with a member of data analytic group.
Both involved questions about your experience, some probability questions, elementary coding questions and relatively easy stat modeling questions.
First interviewer was more willing to walk me through the problem if I reached an answer in slightly different way. Questions were like:
- Derive an expected value/ probability of an event given a situation.
(Some questions are bizarre, but you are expected to ask clarifying questions so it is okay)
- Given a data matrix, describe how you'd count a number of occurrence of certain object.
- you are trying to evaluate the effect of a new feature on yammer, how would you quantify it?
Second was definitely more technical. Only couple of personal questions were asked: 1) he asked me to describe a "cool" project that I have worked on and 2) toward the end of the interview, he randomly asked me what my hobby was for which I was not ready.
- a+b=999 find a,b such that those two numbers are both prime numbers. (The answer is 2 and 997: after I answered, he asked me how would I verify that 997 is a prime number.)
- expected number of trials until you get the first head
- expected number of trials if you continue the experiment until you get two consecutive heads.
- on okcupid type dating website, assume you know the number of messages each user send out and whether or not the user gets a match (0-1); how would you measure the relationship between the two?
I didn't do too well on the second phone interview but I felt that the questions were reasonable at least.
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Sales at Yammer
Posted Mar 21, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 (took 4+ weeks)
I had two detailed telephone interviews, then was invited into a face to face interview and asked to do a full powerpoint presentation. ended up spending nearly 3 hours at their offices meeting the team afterwards. They then got back to me an told me they wanted a fourth interview with again other presentation this time a full business plan they set a date two weeks later as they were busy, I spent the two weeks putting together a very detailed business plan, only to be told the day before the interview it was all off and the job had gone to someone else!! This is disgraceful and extremely bad business practice. The EMEA team do NOT know what they are doing.
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Analyst at Yammer
Posted Feb 19, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Jan 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 4+ weeks)
A recruiter contacted me and arranged a phone screen, which consisted mostly of brain teaser questions. She talked really fast, but I still got the questions right and moved on.
For my in person interview, I met with 4 or 5 people, Some asked me general technical questions (statistics), some had me do Google-type brain teaser questions. They introduced me to unplanned people which I took as a good sign.
I thought this was the last step, but I got a contact saying they wanted me to meet with some new people. Instead I met with many of the same people, and 2 of the key upper-level people they wanted me to meet were unavailable.
I was expecting a response but I was told that those 2 people really wanted to meet with me. They arranged a 6 pm meeting on a Friday since I'd taken 2 days off work for my other two "final" interviews. One of them met with me, and that was fine, but the other never became available... even though I waited around with him until 8 pm at night.
The next week I heard I didn't get the job. Overall I felt really disappointed that they wasted my time on the third in-person interview, and I felt annoyed that the steps kept getting extended despite being told I was at the final stage.
The people at Yammer are clearly smart and driven, but recognize now that I wasn't a great cultural fit, and I wish they'd just cut the interview process off earlier before using up all my days off. My recruiter contact was really nice and gave me some feedback on the decision, which I really appreciated.
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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 Skills Test.
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Quantitative Product Analyst at Yammer
Posted Feb 10, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 weeks)
First there was a quick phone screen with the recruiter, who just wanted to verify my interest in the position and give a general background on what the interview process would be like and what the position is like.
Then she was quick to set up my next round which was with an actual member of the team. That interview was mostly technical in nature (e.g. brainteasers, probability and statistics related interview questions).
Few days later, I was notified that I didn't pass the technical interview.
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Marketing at Yammer
Posted Jan 25, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 3 weeks)
The staff were disorganized and did not seem to realize that I had submitted an *extensive* homework BEFORE the interview. Thus the interview questions were redundant to those posed in the assignment. Which made me think that no one read the work.
All in all, the staff seemed pretty arrogant and projected the attitude that as a interviewer, you should feel lucky to be even considered by such a "amazing" company with some of the "best engineers in the world".
Many other better organizations to work for in SOMA that are not so highly impressed with themselves. Their product is just a enterprise version/ripoff of Facebook, not the second coming.
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