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%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
Personality test: 1%
Background check: 1%
Drug test: 1%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2014
Interview
I got contacted via a resume drop after a forum on campus about Big Data that a Yelp Representative attended. I got contacted by a recruiter about 6 months after the event - which totally worked out for me. I was contacted Sunday night, and had my phone interview that Tuesday. It was 25 minutes, and the recruiter just asked me if I had experience in a variety of platforms (did I have experience with Android for instance), what languages I was most comfortable with, etc. Then she asked me rapid-fire random tech questions - spanning random Unix knowledge/SQL etc, as well as basic byte trivia and some quick algorithm trivia, as well as pretty specific internet protocol stuff. At the end of the interview, she told me I had done well, that I was going on to the next round, which would be a 45 minute coding interview over Skype. I haven't had that next interview yet- but here's hoping!
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.