Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Yandex as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Accounting Technician - Accounts Receivable and rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Accounting Technician - Accounts Receivable and roles were rated as the easiest.
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Interview just asked very abstract questions,without any context and explanation. I passed case correct, but he wrote me after our call- you passed case but not so perfect …
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Yandex (Belgrade, Central Serbia) in Feb 2025
Interview
3 rounds of general interviews (leetcode, ml theory, recsys related) and then one per product team.
Leetcode was not that hard, the last question made me think tho, that was not a regular "invert a linked list" problem but more like a geometry/general math related problem, enjoyed solving it.
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Question 1
Asked about biases in designing a recommendation system and ways to avoid them.
4 rounds interview with algorithm questions. On each section two problems. Leetcode easy and leetcode medium. Discuss solution, give assymptotic and after realize and fix bug. You can't run the code