I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Yelp (Chicago, IL) in Feb 2015
Interview
The whole process takes less that two weeks, the recruiter and interviewer are awesome. Even though the online coding test questions on HackRank are kind of Common sense, like what is SSL? And most of the questions can be found on GlassDoor. My advice, be patient, take a look of all questions on Glassdoor and review the basic computer science lecture handouts.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Yelp (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2019
Interview
The interview went smoothly and I was asked questions about machine learning projects on my resume. For the coding parts, "sort colors" in Leetcode was asked. HR told me she will tell me about the results very soon but I was keeping waiting for several weeks.
I applied through college or university. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp in Nov 2016
Interview
I applied to Yelp during the campus career fair post which they sent a link to a 15 minute coding challenge. I got a mail saying I passed the round and I had a skype interview scheduled after 5 - 6 weeks. The interviewer was very friendly and guided me through the process
Given a paragraph, say a review, find the index of a query phrase.
"I had bread and eggs for breakfast today. I also had bread and eggs yesterday."
Query Phrase : "bread and eggs"
Result : 2,11