I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Yahoo (Sunnyvale, CA) in Dec 2015
Interview
It has totally 5 rounds. First two are phone interviews(one hour 30 mins each) and remaining are onsite interview(45 mins each) at yahoo HQ. The interview process is smooth and the HR are very reachable. The onsite interview process was very smooth and I really liked the yahoo HQ.
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First round: The interview was very nice and she started asking about my projects and asked 4 programming questions 1) Queues with stacks, 2) permutations of a given string 3) grammar checker 4) How to get median from stream of data and she wanted me to code all the questions on google docs in any language.
Second round: This interviewer also started with project and discussed a lot about one of my project and asked 2 coding questions 1) Given an array of increasing and decreasing number find the max number in best complexity 2) find if the given two strings are interleaving of other third string. I have to write sudo code of the logic. Later she asked some network questions and then Linux commands.
Then they flew me to sunnyvale and had 3 interviews there:
Onsite: The people are very good, they showed us the campus followed with breakfast(really awesome perks). All the three interviewers are pretty chilled out and technically sound. Three Interviews are like discussion about particular project, some web server design questions, distributed systems questions(my area of interest), some Algorithm questions(easy ones).
The selection process will consist of two rounds:
1. Online Coding Round – A technical assessment focused on your core tech stack.
2. Hiring Manager Interview (Online) – A virtual interview with the hiring manager to discuss technical depth, problem-solving approach, and alignment with the role.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Yahoo
Interview
The hiring manager did not show up at our originally scheduled meeting time. We rescheduled. The HM name dropped a bunch of big tech companies that they worked for in the past. It felt like the HM was hoping for me to provide a similar list of familiar brand names ... which was odd considering their supposed desire for more startup-y people.
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Question 1
Tell me about a challenging project that you worked on.
The process was expected compared to most comparable jobs. Demonstrate and know your coding and you will do fine. The interview was fair and the hiring managers were all tech savvy. I accepted a different development position with another company a few days after the interview. It was a good experience overall.
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Question 1
What is your time management strategy for meeting project time goals.