I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Yandex (Moscow, Moskva) in May 2020
Interview
5 online interviews with HR partner and team.
First interview - common questions, 4 next interviews - probability and statistics questions and 1 programming (simple level) task.
Also 1 round with business analytics questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Thats NDA, Topics: business analysis, probability calculation, programming: counting arrays.
The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Yandex (Moscow, Moskva) in Mar 2023
Interview
Interview lasted for an hour A lot of questions about python (types, classes, OOP), then some math questions, then leetcode and ml questions (regression, classification) Interviewer helped me a few times
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Yandex
Interview
Steps:
1. HR screening interview with questions about experience and behavioral questions
2. Technical interview with ML / analytics / design questions
3. Algorithms interview
Each step took ~1 hour
You can apply for positions in differenct teams - in this case you would have one Tech interview for every team
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Algorithms: more logical problems, no hardcore data structures (level easy/medium)
Design questions like
Recently we had a task like …
What would be you basic approach to solve it?
How would you upgrade it?
Analytics/business questions like
Some C-level person wants to improve process X. And he/she needs a dashboard to measure those improvements.
Which metrics would you add to the dashboard?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Yandex (Moscow, Moskva) in July 2021
Interview
Constist of 4 interview levels - formal communication with theory and basics. Second two stages constist of sport-programming tasks requiring "hand-based thinking" with online button ckicks control. Very strange system of selection. Takning into account that yandex has no any significant innovation anywhere that does not ad much innovative growth.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Binary trees O(n..), tree algorithms efficiency etc.