I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp in Oct 2016
Interview
Gave my resume to a recruiter on campus. Got an email back about scheduling an interview. Interview itself was standard with a few rapid fire questions and 1 moderate coding question. Was then emailed back within a week for another (final) round with a software engineer and manager for a 1.5 hour interview in total. Each interviewer in the second round had 1 coding problem with rapid fire questions on simple data structures. The process was very fair overall and I intend to apply again after a year of more prep and experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are some exploits that web developers (particularly back-end engineers) have to keep in mind?
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp (Toronto, ON) in Jan 2021
Interview
It's a good interview process. I felt welcomed and it was an enjoyable process. It's a well-built interview that you can clearly see the skills they are looking for and how they help Yelp. My one issue is that they can take a while to get back to you between interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They are all questions relating to yelps business (review scores, user tracking, etc.)
I applied online. I interviewed at Yelp in Sep 2020
Interview
As far as I went, first step was taking a coding assessment of 30 minutes. It was not too challenging but the problem was about Yelp's actual daily topics which made it more interesting. Then there was a prescreen interview which was well arranged and gave a lots of insights about the company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Challenging situations I've faced lately.
Reason of applying for Yelp.
I applied in-person. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2019
Interview
Five mins for introduction; 5 mins to ask about big data pipeline in my resume: why use Flink, why use Kafka. 30 mins to finish 2 algorithm questions. The algorithm questions are not so complicated, but I was asked many complexity analysis questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
why do you use Flink, why do you use Kafka? Can you give a more detailed explanation?
Back-end Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Yelp with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 70% positive. To compare, the company-average is 55.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Back-end Software Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 12 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 Back-end Software Engineer according to 12 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
Skills test: 25%
One on one interview: 15%
Background check: 10%
Presentation: 5%
Personality test: 5%
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