I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp in Oct 2016
Interview
Gave my resume to a recruiter on campus. Got an email back about scheduling an interview. Interview itself was standard with a few rapid fire questions and 1 moderate coding question. Was then emailed back within a week for another (final) round with a software engineer and manager for a 1.5 hour interview in total. Each interviewer in the second round had 1 coding problem with rapid fire questions on simple data structures. The process was very fair overall and I intend to apply again after a year of more prep and experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are some exploits that web developers (particularly back-end engineers) have to keep in mind?
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp (Toronto, ON) in Jan 2021
Interview
It's a good interview process. I felt welcomed and it was an enjoyable process. It's a well-built interview that you can clearly see the skills they are looking for and how they help Yelp. My one issue is that they can take a while to get back to you between interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They are all questions relating to yelps business (review scores, user tracking, etc.)
I applied online. I interviewed at Yelp in Sep 2020
Interview
As far as I went, first step was taking a coding assessment of 30 minutes. It was not too challenging but the problem was about Yelp's actual daily topics which made it more interesting. Then there was a prescreen interview which was well arranged and gave a lots of insights about the company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Challenging situations I've faced lately.
Reason of applying for Yelp.
I applied in-person. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2019
Interview
Five mins for introduction; 5 mins to ask about big data pipeline in my resume: why use Flink, why use Kafka. 30 mins to finish 2 algorithm questions. The algorithm questions are not so complicated, but I was asked many complexity analysis questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
why do you use Flink, why do you use Kafka? Can you give a more detailed explanation?
