I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Yahoo (Santa Clara, CA) in Feb 2021
Interview
It was a pretty straight forward general software interview process. The team member contacted with the details of the team and the what to expect in the interview. There were 2 technical rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Interview 1: Wiggle sort, Longest common substring, square root of a number
Interview 2: Vertical level order traversal of a binary tree
First stage is a technical interview that involving fixing four test case bugs in a language of your choosing. It was a time-based test, that was easy enough if you have experience writing unit tests. was conducted online via, in a group setting of all candidates
Overall experience was good. Mainly focused on DSA and Computer Science Fundamentals. In first round, was asked to submit solutions to DSA problems in presence of 3 senior engineers. In second round, was asked to explain the submitted solutions along with questions on computer science fundamentals.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Was asked DSA questions, and questions related to Operating systems, DBMS and technologies I mentioned in resume.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Yahoo in Feb 2025
Interview
Standard technical interview. Asked me about my experience, questions specific to the position, then got a coding question. Gave me the option between a standard algorithmic question or composing a view. Interviewer was kind of rude, but gave good hints and feedback.
