Yelp Software Engineer interview questions

Applied directly Yelp after finding out about a recent opening for Software Engineers, e.g. Computer Science. One of the recruiters got back to me a day after and we'd arrange a phone interview for a week later. The interview was quite easy, with the recruiter (not an engineer) barking out mostly short answer Unix and basic data structure questions in true bullet-format style. Questions like "would it generally be better to run a binary search on a sorted array, or a linked list?" Study your Unix commands. It was certainly one of my easier interviews when I look back at it. I hesitated and actually changed some of my answers from correct to incorrect due to nervousness from a lack of interview experience. Come prepared and just know that Yelp isn't trying to trick you and you should get the nod for the second round.

Phone screen followed by two technical interviews over skype, and a coding assignment that needs to be submitted with unit tests. Brush up on your data structures and text processing skills. Fairly challenging questions that mostly focussed on technical ability rather than any really domain specific knowledge. The code assignment was fun and the engineers were easy going and good to talk to. No feedback on reason for rejection which isn't the most helpful of things, but a decent experience overall.