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      Software Engineer, New Grad Interview

      19 Mar 2015
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA

      Other Software Engineer, New Grad interview reviews for Yelp

      Software Engineer New Grad Interview

      19 Apr 2021
      Anonymous employee
      London, England
      Accepted offer
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2015

      Interview

      Yelp's interview process was incredibly efficient compared with the other tech companies I have interviewed with. I gave my resume to one of Yelp's engineers at an on-campus career fair and was contacted later that evening to schedule an on-campus screen for a few days later. I struggled more than I should have with the question, but a week after the initial screen, they invited me out for an onsite interview at their office in SF. The onsite interviews started in the afternoon and began with a tour of their offices followed by a series of 4 technical interviews. Their engineers were very friendly and I thought I did well on the coding/algorithms questions. However, they also asked a fair number knowledge-based questions and seemed to be looking for specific answers--I definitely struggled with these due to my inexperience. I came out of the interview feeling pretty good but I received a rejection e-mail two days later telling me that I was not quite a right fit for the position. pros: fast process, interviewers were friendly, cool office in downtown SF cons: as one other review said, Yelp places more emphasis on knowledge-based questions than other tech companies

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Pretty standard behavioral and technical interview questions that can be found online: search, recursion and a bit of machine learning were the focus of mine. All of my interviewers asked me "Why Yelp?" so definitely think about this before you go in. Come up with something better than just "I like food".
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      4
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Yelp (London, England) in Mar 2021

      Interview

      Hackerrank challenge followed by a call with a recruiter. Then, an techinical phone screen of average difficulty followed by and onsite of total of 4 interviews which cover both technical interviews (think DS, algo + system design) and behavioural interviews. Everyone is very friendly, company heavily focuses on maintaining good WLB for employees and developing interesting product features.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Algorithm and data structures based questions
      1 Answer

      Software Engineer New Grad Interview

      7 Oct 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp (San Francisco, CA) in Sept 2019

      Interview

      After applying, I was sent a HackerRank challenge and given a video interview with an engineer. They flew me onsite for 4 back to back interviews (2 behavioral interviews, 1 technical, 1 system design).

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Similar question to https://leetcode.com/problems/top-k-frequent-words/
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      Software Engineer New Grad Interview

      12 Aug 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Yelp in Aug 2019

      Interview

      First I was given a fairly simple hacker rank question to be completed in 20 minutes. Then the next step was to complete a 45 minute video interview over coderpad. The first time the call was scheduled, they sent me a faulty coderpad link, so I had to reschedule it. The second time the call was scheduled, my interviewer didn't show up. Overall I don't know what it is, but terrible interview experience that just wasted my time.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      The hacker rank was a pretty easy string/json parsing question.
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