I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Yelp (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2015
Interview
It's a very nice process, even I didn't get into the next round. There are 3 steps:
1. introduce the team and himself
2. ask my situation, projects
3. code test
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
General question: why are you interests in Yelp? what's your project process, how you find a concert result?
Coding question: understand a pseudo-python code, explain it. According to the time limits, size of queue, calculate the workers number.
online code assessment, call w recruiter, 1hr coding assessment w senior software engineer, then 4hr final panel round. was not difficult and all interviews were v nice and easy to talk through, willing to help w the code if i got stuck
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
easy-medium leetcode and then added a layer of complexity to it once i got the optimal answer
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2015
Interview
I dropped my resume to HR in campus info session, got response after 2 weeks. 1st round is just HR general chatting, like why yelp, what's ur favor language and why, current visa status. 2nd round is OA on hacker rank, which consists of 8 basic Q&A on CS broad knowledge and one easy level leetcode like question. 3rd round is an google hangout interview with a Yelp engineer, who mainly asked me about the projects on my resume, very detailed, and a lot extended problems based on my answers, which I believe I did not do well, and need further hard effort to have deeper understand of my stuff.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what's your concern about web security? what happens when browser renders a response?
Junior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Yelp with 3.8 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 55.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Junior Software Engineer roles take an average of 22 days to get hired, when considering 5 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 Junior Software Engineer according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
One on one interview: 17%
Presentation: 17%
Skills test: 17%
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