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 Feb 2015
Interview
Yelp's interview process was incredibly efficient compared with the other tech companies I have interviewed with. I gave my resume to one of Yelp's engineers at an on-campus career fair and was contacted later that evening to schedule an on-campus screen for a few days later. I struggled more than I should have with the question, but a week after the initial screen, they invited me out for an onsite interview at their office in SF.
The onsite interviews started in the afternoon and began with a tour of their offices followed by a series of 4 technical interviews. Their engineers were very friendly and I thought I did well on the coding/algorithms questions. However, they also asked a fair number knowledge-based questions and seemed to be looking for specific answers--I definitely struggled with these due to my inexperience. I came out of the interview feeling pretty good but I received a rejection e-mail two days later telling me that I was not quite a right fit for the position.
pros: fast process, interviewers were friendly, cool office in downtown SF
cons: as one other review said, Yelp places more emphasis on knowledge-based questions than other tech companies
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Pretty standard behavioral and technical interview questions that can be found online: search, recursion and a bit of machine learning were the focus of mine.
All of my interviewers asked me "Why Yelp?" so definitely think about this before you go in. Come up with something better than just "I like food".
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.