Backend 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 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 55.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Backend Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 4 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 Backend Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 43%
Presentation: 29%
One on one interview: 14%
IQ intelligence test: 14%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Yelp (Toronto, ON) in Jun 2025
Interview
1. Online assessment
2. Recruitment interview
3. Technical Behavioural interview
Virtual Onsite
1. Behavioural
2. Systems Design
3. Coding interview1
4. Coding interview2
The recruiters are extremely slow and I was ghosted after going through the entire process. Not even an automated rejection.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a project you worked on (very detailed)
Conflict Resolution questions
Write a function to create pairs given an input array.
Prueba en línea, después un entrevista de comportamiento y finalmente un panel de 4 entrevistas (Diseño de sistemas, dos desafíos de programación y una entrevista de comportamiento), en una de las entrevistas para resolver un desafío el entrevistador no me guío sólo me dijo resuelve el ejercicio
There are 4 rounds of interview. One sys design, two technical and one behaviour. System Design is a medium level, interviewer is nice, we went through many deep dives functions. Two technical questions are all leetcode medium level. I finished them both with all test cases passed. However, I did not get an offer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
system design: get the public route of selected restaurant