I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Yext in Jul 2025
Interview
First interview was 30 mins of debugging followed by 30 mins of leetcode-style medium difficulty question (graph traversal). Followed up by superday of 4 back-to-back hour long interviews: 1 behavioral, 1 high-level OOP whiteboard-style, 1 debugging (more involved and somewhat more difficult than the first one), and 1 coding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
For my final coding interview, it was more of an API calling exercise than your typical leetcode problem. I was given an API and its endpoints and told to parse through the data given and perform a task with it (in my case, output the data as a leaderboard in a ranked order).
I had a great interview process with friendly interviewers. I interviewed for the New York office as a software engineer. The conversations/interviews were interesting and gave me a clear understanding of the role and company.
I applied online. I interviewed at Yext (Washington, DC) in Dec 2025
Interview
Recruiter screening asking about your resume/background, and interest in the company along with fit/role you are looking for. If you pass this, then you go into the first round where you have 1 hour for a debugging and coding problem (leetcode style) with an engineer on their team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
For recruiter screening:
Explain your background/resume, what are your interests, why Yext?
First round:
(Debugging): Fixing a method call for a max-heap
(Coding): Graph problem about mines and the area they blew up, similar to Flood Fill
I applied online. I interviewed at Yext (Washington, DC) in Dec 2025
Interview
The recruiter reached out for first round, which is a phone call interview to learn about your background and interest in the role, and to share information about the role.
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Yext with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 74% positive. To compare, the company-average is 81.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 24 days to get hired, when considering 128 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Yext overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Yext as a Software Engineer according to 128 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 29%
Phone interview: 28%
Presentation: 13%
Skills test: 12%
Drug test: 4%
Group panel interview: 4%
Background check: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Personality test: 2%
Other: 0%
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