I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Yelp (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2019
Interview
The interview went smoothly and I was asked questions about machine learning projects on my resume. For the coding parts, "sort colors" in Leetcode was asked. HR told me she will tell me about the results very soon but I was keeping waiting for several weeks.
I applied through college or university. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp in Nov 2016
Interview
I applied to Yelp during the campus career fair post which they sent a link to a 15 minute coding challenge. I got a mail saying I passed the round and I had a skype interview scheduled after 5 - 6 weeks. The interviewer was very friendly and guided me through the process
Given a paragraph, say a review, find the index of a query phrase.
"I had bread and eggs for breakfast today. I also had bread and eggs yesterday."
Query Phrase : "bread and eggs"
Result : 2,11
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Yelp (Chicago, IL) in Feb 2015
Interview
The whole process takes less that two weeks, the recruiter and interviewer are awesome. Even though the online coding test questions on HackRank are kind of Common sense, like what is SSL? And most of the questions can be found on GlassDoor. My advice, be patient, take a look of all questions on Glassdoor and review the basic computer science lecture handouts.
Software Engineer Data Mining applicants have rated the interview process at Yelp with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 55.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer Data Mining roles take an average of 20 days to get hired, when considering 4 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 Data Mining according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 67%
Skills test: 33%
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