Software Engineer(Internship) applicants have rated the interview process at Yahoo with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 60% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer(Internship) roles take an average of 25 days to get hired, when considering 42 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(Internship) according to 42 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 34%
One on one interview: 25%
Presentation: 22%
Skills test: 12%
Background check: 1%
Group panel interview: 1%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
Drug test: 1%
Personality test: 1%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Yahoo in Apr 2021
Interview
Process took 1 week starting from 1st interview to offer. Applied in March 1st week, got a mail from Sr Director to set up a call after a month. Interview taken by a SWE of the team. Went over my resume, spoke a but about my experiences. Proceeded to solve 1 LC medium type qs on arrays.
Got another mail within a couple of hrs for the next round scheduled on the next day.
This interview was taken by the Team Lead, asked a few qs on OOPS, design principles, Android. Proceeded to solve 2 LC easy-med qs. Had some timr to ask about the position and company.
Got a verbal offer the next day, and offer letter 1 week later
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of integers, arrange the numbers such that odd numbers come before even numbers. Follow-up: solve it in o(n) time and o(1) space
Longest substring w/o repeating chars
Find Majority element
First stage is a technical interview that involving fixing four test case bugs in a language of your choosing. It was a time-based test, that was easy enough if you have experience writing unit tests. was conducted online via, in a group setting of all candidates
Overall experience was good. Mainly focused on DSA and Computer Science Fundamentals. In first round, was asked to submit solutions to DSA problems in presence of 3 senior engineers. In second round, was asked to explain the submitted solutions along with questions on computer science fundamentals.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Was asked DSA questions, and questions related to Operating systems, DBMS and technologies I mentioned in resume.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Yahoo in Feb 2025
Interview
Standard technical interview. Asked me about my experience, questions specific to the position, then got a coding question. Gave me the option between a standard algorithmic question or composing a view. Interviewer was kind of rude, but gave good hints and feedback.