I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Yahoo (Sunnyvale, CA) in June 2010
Interview
Interviewed for backend position.
Phone screening was mostly revolved around servers scalability issues and connection stacking.
Personal interview is mainly based on my previous projects and technologies.
Whole experience was smooth
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to deal with the scenario of connection stacking and number of open connections in a mail server?
The overall interview process was positive and well-structured. It consisted of five rounds in total:
Round 1: Initial recruiter screening call.
Round 2: Hiring manager interview.
Round 3: Frontend technical problem via CoderPad.
Round 4: Final loop (3 rounds).
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Yahoo
Interview
Started with a phone screen round, then 5 virtual onsite rounds consisting of two System Designs, two Behavioural rounds and a DSA round was taken. All of the interviewers came well prepared and conducted the interviews smoothly.
Intro call
System design
Technical discussion
Product collaboration
Technical screening
No dsa and leetcode, no take home assignment which is nice. Hard to prep for either you will pass or fail nothing to really practice
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a time when, what was your role in xyz project