The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Yahoo (Beijing, Beijing) in May 2010
Interview
1 phone interview, 4 onsite interviews in total.
During the phone interview, they mainly focused on my past working experience and basic technical skills, also I was asked with an open question, to describe how to make use of user event data (such as page view, ad click, search) to target the user to the most relevant ad.
During the onsite interviews, they mainly focused on coding skills, problem solving as well as logical thinking. I was asked to write a function for string edit distance in C/C++, there was also a probability problem .
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Please write a function to figure out the edit distance of two given strings.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Yahoo
Interview
written test,programming test,2 technical interviews followed by hr.the written test will be easy,programming round will be tough.the technical rounds will depand on the person interviewing u,its not impossible to crack.
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Yahoo in Aug 2010
Interview
I had an interview by phone from a hiring company then was invited to go to Yahoo for a face to face interview. Had 2 interviews same day on Yahoo of 45 mins each.
Systems Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Yahoo with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Systems Engineer roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 4 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 Systems Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 43%
One on one interview: 43%
Background check: 14%
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