Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Yahoo with 3.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Scientist roles take an average of 17 days to get hired, when considering 3 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 Scientist according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 27%
One on one interview: 27%
Presentation: 18%
Background check: 9%
Group panel interview: 9%
Skills test: 9%
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I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Yahoo in Jun 2008
Interview
The questions that I got were balanced between pure research (somewhat open-ended) questions, and coding/algorithms questions. This was actually much better than my interview with Google, where I felt like I was in an IQ test rather than an interview, they did not even ask what my phd thesis is about, let alone any research questions.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
describe support vector machines in a couple sentences
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Yahoo in Jan 2016
Interview
One of my friends referred me before Christmas. I got two phone interviews in Jan. The whole interview process takes one week. I scheduled the interview time with the interviewers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There are two phone interviews.
The first interview is technical. Normal coding questions, writing code on a shared doc.
The second interview is about some concepts of machine learning.