Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Yahoo with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 48% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 41 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 Senior Software Engineer according to 41 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 41%
One on one interview: 27%
Skills test: 14%
Group panel interview: 7%
Background check: 7%
Personality test: 4%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Yahoo (Sunnyvale, CA) in Jun 2010
Interview
I got a call from a software developer who spoke in a monotone, was difficult to understand and hung up on me without saying "bye". He didn't want to tell me about the position and always wanted to call back. I gave up and e-mailed him that I wasn't interested. Two weeks later, a Yahoo! recruiter contacted me, asking if I heard from anybody at Yahoo! yet and if I was still interested. I was still interested but was not interested in that first software developer. I got an e-mail from a second software developer with a vague job description for the Yahoo! Mail group which was looking for anybody from a rock star new grad to somebody with 15+ years of experience plus "only true ninjas need apply" (exact quote). I got a call from the second software developer. He was pleasant and asked me basic questions about Java interfaces, Java static members, Java inheritance, JavaScript innerHTML, JavaScript document.all, design patterns and big O notation. I answered all questions but told him that big O notation and design patterns were not very interesting to me so he asked very few questions on those topics. A day later, I got an e-mail rejection from a person in HR. I wrote a followup e-mail to the second software developer but no response yet. My general impression is that Yahoo! has Google-envy: they want to build a rep where their hiring process is needlessly long, illogical, arbitrary, rude and obscure so they can be just like Google!
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
What is a static method in Java and how does it differ from a non-static method?
The overall interview process was positive and well-structured. It consisted of five rounds in total:
Round 1: Initial recruiter screening call.
Round 2: Hiring manager interview.
Round 3: Frontend technical problem via CoderPad.
Round 4: Final loop (3 rounds).
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Yahoo
Interview
Started with a phone screen round, then 5 virtual onsite rounds consisting of two System Designs, two Behavioural rounds and a DSA round was taken. All of the interviewers came well prepared and conducted the interviews smoothly.
Intro call
System design
Technical discussion
Product collaboration
Technical screening
No dsa and leetcode, no take home assignment which is nice. Hard to prep for either you will pass or fail nothing to really practice
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a time when, what was your role in xyz project