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Updated May 7, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Product Manager at Yelp
Posted May 7, 2012
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 (took 4 weeks)
Screener interview with recruiter, followed by two phone interviews with PMs, then a design task, then one day of on-site interviews (4-5 interviews with PMs, engineers, and designers). The interviews were professional and relatively standard, and I was overall pleased with the recruiting process.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Product Manager at Yelp
Posted Nov 20, 2011
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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 Oct 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 weeks)
My 'interview' consisted of a 15-minute phone interview. I wouldn't really call it an interview since the recruiter said it was a formality in the process. Don't get too happy if you make it past this step.
After it, the recruiter sent over a case to tackle. The case was meaty, but given I have a pretty busy full-time job, I told him that it'd take a few days to get back. No worries. I spent several hours on the weekend working on it and sent it back. I thought it was pretty reasoned / thought-out. I looked at several examples of other successful companies doing something similar and thought what I proposed was better or at least in the ballpark. If not, I figured that I demonstrated enough design skills (they wanted to see my visual design / wire framing skills) to give me a chance to make the case in an in-person interview.
Sadly, a few days later, I got a standard form rejection letter. It happens, but it would have been nice to get some simple personalization (if not feedback) in my standard form rejection letter given I spent a good chunk of time working on it. Even better, it would have been great to have a real first-round interview where they ask me questions and I ask them questions and I know there is a basic fit before I invest time on a case.
I still love Yelp, but the recruiting process does not leave a good look for Yelp.
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Product Manager at Yelp
Posted Feb 13, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Jan 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 3 weeks)
I was given a call by the corporate recruiter. He seemed OK - asked me some fair questions and said to proceed further, I'd like to send you a UI design (wireframing) test. He sent me an open ended problem to design.
I was surprised to see this test - because typically such design tests are asked in interviews and people generally expect you to whiteboard a design.
In any case, I created a UI mockup and sent it to them along with the assumptions I had made, what other UI's I'd need to design in addition to the one asked, and description of interactions on the screen. I got no response from them. I pinged them back after 4-5 days. The recruiter gets back to me saying that they had changed the design and made it more complicated than the one before. He also said that a "lot of candidates" had presented the same design. I was taken aback. I don't see any issue with complicating a design, but, honestly I would prefer doing this in a 1:1 interview. If they wanted to assess that I had wireframing and pixel-perfect design skills, they had accomplished that with the first design test. I smelt fraud in here.
I thought about the test again, gave them the benefit of doubt and redid the design and sent it to them. This time, I created a little spec with more details in addition to the wireframe. Again no response. I pinged him after a few days. He said that he had sent me an email a "while back" to say that I had not been accepted. The "while back" happened to be 2 minutes before the response to my email. I was furious.
I accept the fact that my design may not have met their requirements. However, I think this conduct was totally unethical. They were fishing for design solutions.
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