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Updated May 25, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Engineer at Yelp
Posted Jan 24, 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 Dec 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 1 week)
Asked the basic list of questions by HR. Coding questions for the phone interview. Also had to discuss projects that I did
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Account Executive at Yelp
Posted Jan 24, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Scottsdale, AZ (took 2 days)
The first interview was over the phone. They asked basic questions about my experience which was quite easy for me having worked in sales for a few years. After that they asked me to schedule a time to interview through Skype. The Skype interview was with three separate sales managers asking similar but different questions involving role playing. Basically what their trying to get you to do is pitch them as a possible client to set up a follow-up sales call. Be prepared to think on your feet and answer without redundancy. Quick, concise, and to the point.
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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 Intern at Yelp
Posted Jan 10, 2012 — 3 of 3 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 4 weeks)
The intern hiring process contains four interviews in total. The first interview is often conducted by a recruiter. The recruiter will first chatted with you about your background. And then conduct a list of screening questions. Most of questions are very "simple" & "straightforward". He basically (I guess) had some answer with his hand and compare your answer against it. For example, how many bits of an integer? What is the time complexity of searching in a linked list? Do not try to explain your thought or partial answer because this is apparently just a screening, and he/she is a recruiter, not an engineer. I got stuck at few questions and I try to explained what I know and ask for more clarification/hint but apparently he can't give you a hint or any help. We just move on.
Once you passed the phone interview, the next step is a 45 minute phone interview. I was interviewed by a software developer. They starts with your resume, discuss projects you done, your publications(papers, etc.), and I feel that he is more interested in knowing who you are and what's your background. They will throw questions related to your resume and past projects. For example, he randomly picked one of my former project and ask for more details, my role in the team, etc. It's just like a regular "tech" interview, keep throwing you CS problem, in particular, algorithms & data structure. Interesting enough, I was not asked to "actually" write code for anything. My interviewer is happy with a high level pseudo-code and we move on.
Few days later the recruiter contacted me again and scheduled another 90 minutes back-to-back phone interview. The first interviewer is a senior engineer, and the second interviewer is a tech manager. They had a video skype meeting with me and we can see each other. (So don't be naked). The interview process is very tense. Both interviews started with projects you did before. Then, they try to understand why you are a good fit to the company (I guess). The tech parts involves lots of stuff. It's not (purely) code tests because they throw your many questions about operating system, databases, linux, python, etc. Yes, they were trying to push you to the limit. Also, I was asked to implement a "modified" data structure, so be prepared of writing codes. The coding problem is reasonable. No brain-teaser questions nor fancy questions that test your IQ. Of course, you have to write code neatly and quickly (not pseudo code).
These topics are covered in my interviews:
- operating system, process, multi threads, memory models
- database, in particular, SQL language
- scripting language: python (but I think answer in perl may be okay)
- data structure & algorithm: stack, linked-list, hashmap, tree, heap, etc.
- security (attacking, encryption, etc.)
- web standards/protocol: http, dns, tcp/ip, ssl, etc.
- recursion and/or dynamic programing
- linux knowledge/commands
To sum up, I think they tend to ask you "many" tech questions that can be answered in few minutes. So it's a "broad" test but not just a problem-solving "coding" test. Overall the interview process is very good. The only thing I don't really enjoy is that they interview you via Skype. In a large room without a headset device, the echo could be bad.
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Negotiation Details
They will try to match as close as other offer(s) you got, but will not top on it.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineering at Yelp
Posted Jan 14, 2012
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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 Jan 2012 (took 1 week)
I applied for the position on Yelp career site and got contacted about a week later for an initial screening interview. The initial interview consists of a "technical recruiter" asking some general questions and some other questions related to bits/bytes, unix commands, etc., exactly the same as other people mentioned.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Content at Yelp
Posted Jan 4, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2010 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 days)
Very disorganized.
phone screening at first , invited to personal interview. no in depth question. why do you want to work at yelp etc... Kept in touch with the company for over a month trying to find out if they where interested. kept getting " yes but we need add time" finally told them i could not wait, where they again wanted me to wait.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Software Engineer at Yelp
Posted Jan 4, 2012
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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 Jan 2012 (took 1 week)
Initial Screening Phone Interview : <15min>
Basic question on computer science .
This was taken by a non-technical person as she was doing an initial round of screening
Technical Phone Interview: <45min>
Questions about project , how you would approach a problem and solve it .. errrors you cam across
Questions regarding unix , web related
Finally a coding question , you have approximately 20 min for the same
Interview Questions
Explain process after you click a URL ( on server / client side )
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Account Executive at Yelp
Posted Dec 27, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 1+ week)
I applied to Yelp through their website, which consisted of uploading an "interesting" cover letter and resume. I received an email the next day from a recruiting manager to schedule a phone interview. The phone interviewer was 45 minutes late to call me! She asked questions like, "Describe yourself in 30 seconds," and "Tell me about Yelp and this position." Overall, not very hard questions. She then told me that I will be receiving an email within the next couple of days to schedule a panel interview in San Francisco. The panel interview was decent. The first two people were nice, and the interview was very conversational and relaxed. The third person, however, was put there to scare you. He kept a straight face and was rude. A lot of role-playing in these interviews, so be prepared to think on your feet.
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Reason for Declining
I realized that I wasn't into sales.
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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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Community Manager at Yelp
Posted Dec 18, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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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 Mar 2011 (took 6 weeks)
I had two phone interviews about a week a part, an in-person interview a couple weeks later, and then a final phone interview with a senior level executive. I also had to submit a writing sample (which was actually fun!). There was a strong emphasis on my marketing skills and my personality, as well as my writing strengths. Everyone I interviewed with was pleasant and asked suitable, appropriate questions for the job at hand.
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Negotiation Details
Short and sweet. Took only about a day or so to work with the numbers. We met in the middle. I was satisfied.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineering Intern at Yelp
Posted Dec 16, 2011
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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 Dec 2011 (took 1 week)
My only gripe is that the engineer I interviewed with first told me not to worry about any language API limitation, but during the interview, told me that doing something would violate a language construct and I couldn't continue with that part of the solution. I agreed because I wasn't positive if the API would allow it, but in any case, I wasn't trying to do some black-box magic 'this function sorts an array in constant space' kind of thing, so it shouldn't have been alright. Turns out that what I was trying to do was perfectly legal within the API, so I really didn't violate anything. Anyway, that bad info forced me to write a solution in O(nlog(n)) space when I could have done it in O(n).
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Account Executive at Yelp
Posted Dec 13, 2011
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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 Nov 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 1 week)
I first applied for an opening I found on the Yelp website. A day later I received an email stating that a account manager would like a phone interview with me and gave me 3 times to choose from. They called on time and the guy was young and pretty cool. He gave the basics about the job and what I should be expecting. It went well and he told me he would like me to come in for a face to face interview with 3 managers. Though I live a ways away from SF so I asked for a Skype interview (i mean they are a internet company). Big mistake. The first two managers I spoke with were rather nice, we did some role-play and it went rather smoothly (I was prepared). Then the third interviewer come on and first thing she says is, "I hate Skype interviews". Wow. I was shocked but laugh it off. Then we get to role play and out of left field she says " sell me the pen in your hand". Anyway, no job offer, on to the next.
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