I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Yahoo (Sunnyvale, CA) in Feb 2010
Interview
While happy with my current job, I got connected to the recruiter through LinkedIn who forwarded my resume to one of the teams. I had a phone interview with Yahoo! Mail Search team. Questions asked were something like finding possible substrings in the string and some C++ concept questions. The interviewer was the worst interviewer I have ever experienced. I was pretty sure that she didn't bother going through my resume before the phone interview. She was very rude and was not paying attention to my answers. At the end, we ran out of time and she didn't let me ask questions because she was in hurry to get off the phone.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
write a program that finds all repeated substrings in the string and provide the complexity of this program. how can you make it to perform better in time and memory?
The overall interview process was positive and well-structured. It consisted of five rounds in total:
Round 1: Initial recruiter screening call.
Round 2: Hiring manager interview.
Round 3: Frontend technical problem via CoderPad.
Round 4: Final loop (3 rounds).
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Yahoo
Interview
Started with a phone screen round, then 5 virtual onsite rounds consisting of two System Designs, two Behavioural rounds and a DSA round was taken. All of the interviewers came well prepared and conducted the interviews smoothly.
Intro call
System design
Technical discussion
Product collaboration
Technical screening
No dsa and leetcode, no take home assignment which is nice. Hard to prep for either you will pass or fail nothing to really practice
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a time when, what was your role in xyz project