I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Yahoo (Sunnyvale, CA) in June 2015
Interview
Applied online for Yahoo Gemini and got a call from Principal Engineer in 3-4 days, requesting for setting up Technical Phone Interview.
1 phone interview : Cleared and got onsite request.
1 on-site interview : Had 6 rounds each 45 mins. But one guy had to take PTO and ended up having only 5 rounds each 50 mins. 1/5 round was Lunch
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Phone interview Question: Convert a BST into Doubly Linked List
Onsite
1st Round: Scaling questions (don't recall them right now, couple of them were related to Kap, DHT, Chord), Sockets, RPC, Reverse Linked List, Circular Linked List, Middle of Linked List.
2nd Round: Coding question. Given an array with unsorted integers, move all even on left side and all odds on right side. After that sort even in increasing order and sort odd in decreasing order
3rd Round: Lunch. Overivew of the team and asking questions about what you are looking for and why are you leaving your current company
4th Round: Coding question.
1) Write a function which has 2 input (word, random_string), return true if you can construct the word from random_string or else return false. For e.g: "apple", "sxryppaelwb" will return true but "apple", "srxypaelwb" will return false.
2) Write a function which will sort the input word list into decreasing order of string length only if that word can be constructed from random string.
5th Round: Basic Logical question.
1) stack increasing decreasing question & code
2) ps aux | grep "myscript" related question.
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.
Interview questions [1]
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your time management strategy for meeting project time goals.