I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Yahoo in Oct 2015
Interview
A frustrating interview experience because the questions were nonstandard (didn't get a single data structure / algorithm question). Would be fair if I was several years in industry and acquainted with this stuff, but I'm still in college and don't necessarily possess the domain knowledge yet. The person was nice enough though, but it was just a bad fit for the time being. The rejection email was an automated message. This was the part that left me with a bad impression. It's should be a courtesy to thank the candidate for interviewing with them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What happens after you put in www.yahoo.com into your browser?
Interviewed in summer 2014. Their process was straightforward - two phone rounds. Was asked background question related to my resume and coding questions. The communication was slow from HR end but both the interviewers were easy to talk to.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Yahoo (Waterloo, ON)
Interview
Applied from the University job portal, the interview was set up a week after my application was submitted. The interview consisted of two 30 minute interviews back-to-back with different Software Engineers. First interview was behavioural and basic questions on front end development, and the interview ended with a quick coding question. The second interview was more focused on technical experience, a couple quick questions about projects and past experience and then the majority of the interview was on a coding problem. Overall, good experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q1: Given an amount of money m, determine the amount of quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies are needed to get m.
Q2: Design a class for an arbitrary tree, and then given nodes s and t in the tree, find a path from s to t.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Yahoo (Waterloo, ON) in Jun 2016
Interview
There were two back to back in person interviews with 2 different people. One was a rapid fire style technical interview (ie. what is polymorphism?), and the second was an algorithm question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the difference between a hash table and a hash set in C?