Software Engineering applicants have rated the interview process at Yelp with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 56% positive. To compare, the company-average is 55.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineering roles take an average of 17 days to get hired, when considering 31 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 Engineering according to 31 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 59%
One on one interview: 17%
Skills test: 7%
Background check: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Presentation: 2%
Personality test: 2%
Drug test: 2%
Other: 2%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Yelp (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2011
Interview
Even though I had applied through campus, I got a phone interview. I've seen lots of complaints from Yelp interviewees saying that the technical interviews were conducted by non-technical (HR) people. This was not the case for me since I was interviewed by an engineer.
The phone interview went well. Then I got an automated rejection email within a couple of days. I said to myself "fudge it". But next week, I got a phone call asking me whether I was available for a second interview. I told them "I am 12 and what is this". Then I get an apologetic call from the recruiter saying their was a mix up and they would be still interested. The recruiter asked if I would take a code test. I was like "whynot.jpg".
The code test consisted of a research level problem in information retrieval. I spent quite some time on that and submitted what I thought was an excellent solution. It pretty much did everything the test asked for. I didn't hear from them in two weeks. So I politely contacted the recruiter and got the exact same rejection mail within 7 minutes. lolwut.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
What kind of projects have you done? Which one was the most annoying?
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Yelp (San Francisco, CA) in Jun 2018
Interview
I applied for a role in the infrastructure team.
I was contacted by a recruiter to do a 15 minute hacker rank. The problem description was long, so be careful and make sure you understand it.
Following that, I had a 45 minute technical interview with an engineer. We talked about Yelp, my background, and he asked some general questions about scaling. I then answered a technical question on a live coding link. Following this stage, I had 2 final 45 minute interviews with an engineering manager and an engineer that were similar in format. Two weeks later, I got an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you read in a file that was too big for main memory? What if you had multiple computers?
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp (Waterloo, ON) in Feb 2017
Interview
Pleasant Interview, the guy mentioned a couple of things about the company, talked about my projects, and asked me about some specifics. Asked about some technical knowledge and then went on to the technical question. Then there was another guy to do the behavioral interview, talked about the position itself and some of the things about yelp.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Easy implementation question, given a position, move it around based on a bunch of commands that would be given in a list.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Yelp
Interview
I applied for the data mining position. Started with a Hackerrank challenge. Then a Skype screen (45 minutes, talked about resume, NLP related questions about categorizing reviews and did a coding question). Finally two back to back 45 minute long Skype interviews, same as the phone screen.
The process took quite a while with some difficulty with availability initially. However the recruiters were always flexible with rescheduling.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If restaurant categories have integer IDs and some can be marked as duplicates of others, design a library to store and retrieve such duplicate sets. If you query an ID it should return the smallest duplicate. You should be able to mark duplicates etc.