I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2014
Interview
I got contacted via a resume drop after a forum on campus about Big Data that a Yelp Representative attended. I got contacted by a recruiter about 6 months after the event - which totally worked out for me. I was contacted Sunday night, and had my phone interview that Tuesday. It was 25 minutes, and the recruiter just asked me if I had experience in a variety of platforms (did I have experience with Android for instance), what languages I was most comfortable with, etc. Then she asked me rapid-fire random tech questions - spanning random Unix knowledge/SQL etc, as well as basic byte trivia and some quick algorithm trivia, as well as pretty specific internet protocol stuff. At the end of the interview, she told me I had done well, that I was going on to the next round, which would be a 45 minute coding interview over Skype. I haven't had that next interview yet- but here's hoping!
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.
