I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp (San Francisco, CA) in Dec 2014
Interview
Submitted resume via employee referral. Heard from a recruiter about two weeks later. He scheduled a phone interview with me, which covered basic behavioral questions(Why Yelp, etc.) He then sent me a test on hackerrank, which can be found on here. I then had a Skype interview with an engineer. I came up with an efficient solution quickly, but the interviewer wanted me to code up a different, less efficient way. I made it to the onsite round where I was really underwhelmed. The engineers did not seem like they wanted to be there. One interviewer was clearly zoning out as I struggled to come up with an algorithm to a problem. Each interview is half knowledge-based questions and the other half is dedicated to solving one medium-level difficulty problem, all of which can be found online.
Leetcode style interview online via link, then a 1 on 1 technical interview with a lead developer also online where you can ask questions about the role and working at yelp, later more in depth technical tests and finally references and psicological tests.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Talk about the project you are the most proud of, why do you want to work at yelp
Very intense. 4 back to back 45 minute interviews. One behaviour and four technical interviews.
Nice people but got the vibe everyone was happy with the work as it wasn’t too challenging.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Yelp (Toronto, ON) in May 2025
Interview
Around 3 different rounds with a mix of behavioural and technical. Last round features on-site which lasts the whole day, where there are 2 dsa rounds, 1 system design round and 1 recruiter round to end the day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Walk us through one project you have done, and some of the challenges you encountered while working on this project