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      Front-end Software Engineer Interview

      Nov 9, 2013
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Sunnyvale, CA

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      Front End Developer Interview

      May 17, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Taipei
      No offer
      Declined offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Yahoo (Sunnyvale, CA) in Oct 2013

      Interview

      Short Version: Bad experience. Their recruiting system is a mess. Long Version: Submitted resume on job fair. Then invited to a dinner with several yahoo engineers. 1 week later, get contact for an onsite interview. (Yes, no phone screening at all.) Their campus is okay, nothing to complain. It similar to other big companies in its age. (like the "M" and "A") But I would say all tech companies who rates over 4 on glassdoor will have a better office. The interview is completely waste of time for me. I'm college new grad and full-stack web developer, but their questions are all about html, css and javascript. As we know, people don't teach them in college, "treehouse" tech those stuff. And the questions are quite unreasonable also. There're lots of questions about "tricks" in css and js instead of more important concept. By "tricks" I mean those things very detailed knowledge about css and js which can only be used to solve one problem. For example, how to block the click event of a <a> with out using event blocker? The answer is attached an oncl1ck function to <a> and let the function return false. Seriously? If that's what you expecting from candidates, you should go for an experience web developer who had been in the industry for years not a new grad like me. And there're some other crazy question such as write a micro website (html + css + js) without look at the reference. I have to say I screwed up the interview because that not actually the position I'm looking for. They could save both of us a lot of time by doing a phone interview before! At last, it's the worst part. I got a reject email couple weeks later, and then contacted by a recruiter for a offer. What? I asked the recruiter to double check my status in their database and it looks like there're actually two team read my interview feedback. One team rejected me and send me the reject email without waiting for the response of the other team. And it turns out the other team actually wants me on board. However, at that time I've already got a much better opportunity so I decline it. But then both the recruiter and the manager called me and try to change my mind without anything convincing. I shared my concern with the manager that I believe I'm not the right person for their position.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Lots of css and js trick that I haven't heard of.
      Answer question
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Yahoo (Taipei)

      Interview

      First is self introduction check if you have experience in frontend framework JavaScript concept questions Such as var let const event loop event bubbling capturing hoisting IIFE CSS pattern HTML async defer

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      write a bubble sort in JS
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      Front End Developer Interview

      Jul 23, 2022
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Taipei
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Yahoo (Taipei) in Jan 2022

      Interview

      3 rounds: 1. talking with HR: a short introduction of yourself, your salary expectation, your current salary, and do you have an ongoing interview with other companies now 2. 1st round technical interview talking with the hiring manager doesn't involve live coding, just sharing what you know about the current topic, it's ok to admit that you're not familiar with some topic, being honest is important 3. 2nd round technical interview talking with the hiring manager + 3 other developers on the team, takes around 3 hours, each of them has deep knowledge of a specific area, some will focus on web security, some focus on the algorithms, etc... the live coding one evolves on some general CSS adjustments, a simple app that includes functions like a todo app, and an algorithms test, starting from leetcode easy level

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      do you know web vital? could you describe it? what is XSS, and CSRF, could you explain them in detail, what's the difference between them?
      Answer question
      1

      Front End Developer Interview

      Aug 8, 2021
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Yahoo

      Interview

      It was 2 rounds. 1st round is about few html, css and javascript basic questions and coderpad with a leetcode medium question on arrays. Also asked about React concepts on hooks.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Leetcode medium questions on arrays. (sliding window)
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      1

      Yahoo interviews FAQs

      • Front-end Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Yahoo with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 18% positive. To compare, the company-average is 55.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Front-end Software Engineer roles take an average of 20 days to get hired, when considering 11 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 Software Engineer according to 11 Glassdoor interviews include:

        One on one interview:  32%

        Phone interview:  27%

        Skills test:  18%

        Presentation:  9%

        Group panel interview:  9%

        Personality test:  5%

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