Software Engineer - New Grad applicants have rated the interview process at Yelp with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 53% positive. To compare, the company-average is 55.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer - New Grad roles take an average of 25 days to get hired, when considering 45 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 Software Engineer - New Grad according to 45 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 39%
One on one interview: 21%
Skills test: 16%
Presentation: 11%
Group panel interview: 5%
Other: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
Personality test: 1%
Background check: 1%
Drug test: 1%
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp in Jan 2013
Interview
Had two phone interviews. First one was with HR, but they had tech questions too. Then a code assignment. Then second one was technical interview with a senior engineer. When prepping, it's good to know a bit of everything. And linux commands, bit manipulation, acronyms, etc. I found the other interviews on Glassdoor helpful when preparing too. Recruiter was great - there was a long gap between first interview and second, so he scheduled a catch-up meeting before the second one
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I only remember the easy ones :S
- How would you improve Yelp
- Why do you want to work here
- whats does HTTP stand for
- what's the kill code on linux
- in memory, what's the difference between a primitive and object
- what's a way to set up a large database to find things quickly
- what's the difference between hashtable and hashmap?
- find equilibrium index
I applied online. I interviewed at Yelp (London, England) in Mar 2021
Interview
Hackerrank challenge followed by a call with a recruiter. Then, an techinical phone screen of average difficulty followed by and onsite of total of 4 interviews which cover both technical interviews (think DS, algo + system design) and behavioural interviews. Everyone is very friendly, company heavily focuses on maintaining good WLB for employees and developing interesting product features.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2019
Interview
After applying, I was sent a HackerRank challenge and given a video interview with an engineer.
They flew me onsite for 4 back to back interviews (2 behavioral interviews, 1 technical, 1 system design).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Similar question to https://leetcode.com/problems/top-k-frequent-words/
I applied online. I interviewed at Yelp in Aug 2019
Interview
First I was given a fairly simple hacker rank question to be completed in 20 minutes. Then the next step was to complete a 45 minute video interview over coderpad. The first time the call was scheduled, they sent me a faulty coderpad link, so I had to reschedule it. The second time the call was scheduled, my interviewer didn't show up. Overall I don't know what it is, but terrible interview experience that just wasted my time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The hacker rank was a pretty easy string/json parsing question.