I applied through college or university. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2018
Interview
20 minute Hackerrank prescreen, reached out for a 45 minute technical Skype interview with an engineer one week later. Took about a week after I sent my availability to confirm the time of the Skype interview. Very flexible in rescheduling this interview when I realized I was double-booked. This interview was quite easy, and seemed mostly to give an idea of how collaboration is at Yelp. About a week later, the recruiter reached out with an onsite offer.
The onsite was 4 interviews: 2 behavioral, 2 technical (one system design, one algorithms). The engineers were friendly and acted as good sounding boards.
After the onsite, my recruiter was very respectful of my deadlines and rushed the process, getting back to me with a decision just three days after my onsite.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system for calculating and displaying a small new feature on a Yelp business page.
I applied online. I interviewed at Yelp (London, England) in Mar 2021
Interview
Hackerrank challenge followed by a call with a recruiter. Then, an techinical phone screen of average difficulty followed by and onsite of total of 4 interviews which cover both technical interviews (think DS, algo + system design) and behavioural interviews. Everyone is very friendly, company heavily focuses on maintaining good WLB for employees and developing interesting product features.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2019
Interview
After applying, I was sent a HackerRank challenge and given a video interview with an engineer.
They flew me onsite for 4 back to back interviews (2 behavioral interviews, 1 technical, 1 system design).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Similar question to https://leetcode.com/problems/top-k-frequent-words/
I applied online. I interviewed at Yelp in Aug 2019
Interview
First I was given a fairly simple hacker rank question to be completed in 20 minutes. Then the next step was to complete a 45 minute video interview over coderpad. The first time the call was scheduled, they sent me a faulty coderpad link, so I had to reschedule it. The second time the call was scheduled, my interviewer didn't show up. Overall I don't know what it is, but terrible interview experience that just wasted my time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The hacker rank was a pretty easy string/json parsing question.
