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PHP Developer at Yahoo

Accepted Offer – Reviewed Jan 24, 2013

Interview Details the 1st meeting was an overview, then I got a call for a 2nd ones more technical, they asked about server administration, command line tools and details about PHP.

Interview Question – all the meetings were pretty straight forward, no surprises if really domain Linux/PHP   Answer Question

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Yahoo Software Engineer Interview at Yahoo

Accepted Offer – Reviewed May 14, 2013 New

Interview Details The hiring process was a mess because I was to be a part of a company Yahoo was taking over

Interview Question – Improve performance of a multi threaded application, prevent the deadlock and use synclocks   Answer Question

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Senior Software Quality Engineer at Yahoo

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Boca Raton, FL (US) – Reviewed May 12, 2013 New

Interview Details The hiring process was a mess because I was to be a part of a company Yahoo was taking over

Interview Question – Improve performance of a multi threaded application, prevent the deadlock and use synclocks   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – Yes, Yahoo needs technical talent. They were not flexible with the salary but I was able to negotiate other things I wanted.

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Service Reliability Engineer at Yahoo

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Sunnyvale, CA (US) Mar 2013 – Reviewed May 10, 2013 New

Interview Details Contract position. First a written screen which took about two hours to complete, but nothing in it was difficult to research and answer if you didn't already know it.

Interview Question – In the second stage a phone interview the following situation was presented: You have 5 Apache web servers sitting behind a load balancer. They are pegged as far as load and are not responding to page requests within agreed to SLAs. Tell me the steps you'd take to debug the problem.   View Answer

Negotiation Details – No Negotiation. Contract provider called next working day (Phone interview was on a Friday) and made an offer which I accepted.

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Summer Technical Intern at Yahoo

Declined Offer – Reviewed May 08, 2013

Interview Details Was contacted by email a month after applying. I had a phone interview with 2 separate teams. Both went well. Had two second round phone interviews, one with each team, about a week after the first one. Went well also. I was told by HR I should know the result for both teams within a week. Now, it has been almost 3 weeks since that and I've contacted HR multiple times through email with no response. When I called them they told me they are still interviewing other candidates and I should know the result soon. I have a deadline for other offers so I'll have to accept those offers because Yahoo has a horrible interview process and they do not care about any time constraints or the fact that the interviewee has other deadlines. Don't apply for this company, you'll be wasting your time. I don't know what's going to happen to my result but if they end up offering me the position over the next week or so I will decline it.

Interview Question – Nothing difficult, basic questions including topics like systems programming, web servers, some perl questions. All based on resume pretty much.   Answer Question

Reason for Declining – Horrible interview process, they do not care about deadlines and take their sweet time to get back to you (if they even do get back to you).

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Intern Human Resources at Yahoo

No Offer – Interviewed in Mar 2013 – Reviewed Apr 29, 2013

Interview Details I applied via online application and received an invitation to a phone interview after about 2 weeks. The interview was quite ok, the questions easy with no typical right-or-wrong answers.

The interviewer seemed totally impressed by my CV and my previous work experience and told me she definitely wants to do the second interview with me. I was positively surprised and we agreed that I will come back to her because I had to talk to my University Director first about the internship conditions.

After writing an Email to my interviewer confirming my interest in the internhsip and stating that everything is fine with my Director I received a standardized rejection mail!

I was confused and forwarded the Email to my interviewers Email adress asking what happened and why she did not want to continue the process like said in the first interview. When I did not get a reply after 4 weeks I forwarded the Mail to another employee I was in contact with before and asked what happened to my application. This was two weeks ago and still no reply...

This is not only frustrating but also very unprofessional!!
I worked in HR and I also had to tell applicants that they will not get an offer but simply ignoring their questions and make promises you cannot keep is very disrespectful.

Interview Question – Do you have work permit for the US?   View Answer

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Search Quality Analyst at Yahoo

Accepted Offer – Reviewed Apr 26, 2013

Interview Details The first interview is over the phone. They ask typical 'get to know' you questions about your background and why you're interested in working for them. After the first phone interview, there was a Quality Analyst exam that I to take and submit within 48hrs of receiving it.

After the exam there was one more phone interview before the onsite interview.

Interview Question – Question was asked: "If you were on an island and could only bring 3 things, what would you bring?"   Answer Question

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Software NEw College Grad at Yahoo

No Offer – Reviewed Apr 20, 2013

Interview Details Got invited for an onside interview through a college job fair. Fair Java conceptual questions (it was my very first interview, so I missed some simply because of nerves),, with some discussion of my background. Everyone was generally nice and very welcoming. Received a quick tour of the office afterwards, and that was it. Total time was around 1.5 hrs.

Interview Question – Questions were not too hard (coding singleton, exceptions, and a simple program using the % operator)   Answer Question

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Technical Yahoo at Yahoo

No Offer – Interviewed in Apr 2013 – Reviewed Apr 13, 2013

Interview Details I dropped my resume in university career fair. And I was contacted quickly after that. I got two interviews, both phone screens.Interview Details – I submitted my resume through the job fair of my university. I got the email of the first interview after more than one month.

For the first interview, I was asked some general questions about how to design a problem using different kinds of distributed and parallel tools, like Hadoop, Hadoop PIG, and MPI. I think the reason is that I have previous related projects. No online coding.

For the second interview, the interviewer is a system architect. And we only discussed several question of Hadoop and HDFS. Also some general questions about OOP

Interview Question – Hadoop and HDFS   Answer Question

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Software Engineer Intern at Yahoo

No Offer – Interviewed in Mar 2013 – Reviewed Apr 12, 2013

Interview Details The interviews of Yahoo! are not regular. They may ask various kinds of questions. What I encountered is: How to design a survey website? After answering, he was not satisfactory and rejected me in 2 hours...

Interview Question – How to design a survey website?   Answer Question

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