I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp (San Francisco, CA) in Jul 2012
Interview
Submitted my CV online at the company's website and a few days later, a recruiter contacted me via email for a technical phone screening. I was asked various questions about my CV, previous project I worked on, why I want to join Yelp, and a rapid sequence of 10-15 techie questions (basic enough). Most of them can be found in the glassdoor website previously posted for Yelp.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Reconstruct a binary tree given two sequences of node traversals, one from inorder and one from postorder traversal.
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.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 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/
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.
Software Engineer - New Grad applicants have rated the interview process at Yelp with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 53% positive. To compare, the company-average is 55.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer - New Grad roles take an average of 25 days to get hired, when considering 45 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Yelp overall takes an average of 18 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Yelp as a Software Engineer - New Grad according to 45 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 39%
One on one interview: 21%
Skills test: 16%
Presentation: 11%
Group panel interview: 5%
Other: 3%
Background check: 1%
Personality test: 1%
Drug test: 1%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
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