I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Yahoo (Sunnyvale, CA) in Feb 2015
Interview
Recruited contacted me via Linkedin. The whole process took about 3 weeks. I had 3 interviews
1) Phone Interview - Basic hr stuff , talked about resume and role at yahoo.
2)Phone Technical interview - Verbal tech questions, basic front end stuff.
3)Onsite Interview (Sunnyvale, CA) - had a total of 6 interviews 5 tech and 1 Hr. 4 of the interviews focused on coding html/css/js and 1 interview was CS core like DB/Algorithms/Tree Traversal.
I wasn't expecting to have a CS fundamentals interview , I hadn't brushed up on those topics.
The campus is ok, nothing to complain.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a js program to dispense change in denomation of 25cents/10cents/5cents/1cent
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Yahoo (New York, NY) in Oct 2016
Interview
Applied online, Team lead contacted and setup a phone interview with another person. Phone + Coderpad interview, interviewer shared a link and explained the codes. 20 minutes each and hardly any discussion or help from interviewer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
code: 1 function based on callback, 1 function based on call, apply and write a function by taking arguments from two other functions, 1 function that changes the JSON file to clean JSON (object manipulation)
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Yahoo in Oct 2016
Interview
Applied through referral, 2 phone interviews, both technical. One focused on Web technologies - HTML5, CSS3, Javascript - es6, node, protocols, testing etc.
Second one focused on data structures. Both required coding on collabedit. For the second interview, I have solved with O(n log n ) time complexity but the interviewer wanted O(n) so got rejected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) HTML5, CSS3, Javascript - es6, node.js, protocols, testing etc. requires intense knowledge to answer
2) search algorithms & trees
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Yahoo (Sunnyvale, CA) in Sep 2016
Interview
2 phone interviews(one js and one pure css) then onsite.
Onsite : with 3 interviews in a day then lunch with the team leader.
many scopes in front end: pure js, oo js, dom, http, css, browser rendering, simple algs etc.
Also ask some questions about my resume, projects done before.
The interviewers are veeery nice.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. js hoisting, simple oo js and closure
2. simple algs like duplicate removal and analysis of running time.
3. some css + html like write a form like this.
4. js, dom manipulation
5. http
Front End Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Yahoo with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Front End Engineer roles take an average of 9 days to get hired, when considering 14 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Yahoo overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Yahoo as a Front End Engineer according to 14 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
One on one interview: 24%
Skills test: 12%
Background check: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Personality test: 4%
Group panel interview: 4%
Presentation: 4%
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