Software Engineer Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Yahoo with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer Intern roles take an average of 17 days to get hired, when considering 27 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 Software Engineer Intern according to 27 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 45%
Skills test: 23%
One on one interview: 16%
Personality test: 6%
Background check: 3%
Group panel interview: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Yahoo
Interview
I submitted my resume through the job fair of my university. I got the email of the first interview after more than one month.
For the first interview, I was asked some general questions about how to design a problem using different kinds of distributed and parallel tools, like Hadoop, Hadoop PIG, and MPI. I think the reason is that I have previous related projects. No online coding.
After the first interview, I got the email of next step within only 2 hours.
For the second interview, the interviewer is a system architect. And we only discussed several question of Hadoop and HDFS. Also some general questions about OOP. No online coding.
Then the next day, I got the offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to find the k largest number in a distributed environment through a frontend tool. I am quite unfamiliar with frontend tool, so I just proposed a method which is more like a joke, and the interviewer also laughed about it.
I applied online. I interviewed at Yahoo (Mountain View, CA)
Interview
Technical - was asked a question on arrays and asked a follow up challenge question building on the first question.
Behavioral - was interviewed by the hiring manager for the position.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Discuss one of your projects and a challenge you encountered when working on it.
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Yahoo (Dublin, Dublin) in Nov 2023
Interview
Got an email asking when I would be available for an informal call. Had an informal call discussing myself and the course I an in. Followed by a technical interview
I applied online. I interviewed at Yahoo (Sunnyvale, CA)
Interview
It was medium level interview. The interviewers were very responsive and friendly. They concentrated more on approach rather than optimisation. In the end, I was able to come up with an optimised solution.