I applied through university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Yahoo (Champaign, IL) in Oct 2015
Interview
The whole process took around 2 months. I had an initial phone screening and after that an onsite interview at the Champaign office.
The phone screening lasted an hour with questions from Java basics (as it was my language of choice), Database basics, 2 programming problems and 1 object oriented design problem. I was also allowed to ask a few questions of my own. The interviewer was very friendly. I didn't have much knowledge on shell scripting and when I told him that, he didn't ask anymore questions from that part.
Had a great experience at the onsite interview. There were three interviews: one behavioral, one reverse engineering and one algorithmic.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I am not allowed to share the details, but will give a brief overview of each. The first interview was a behavioral interview. I was presented with different scenarios at a workplace and asked by the interviewer to explain how I would tackle the problem. There were few questions from S/W Development Process Models, Version Control and Testing. The second interview was Reverse Engineering/Scripting. I had to write some codes in python and design some test cases. Also, I was given a five page python code with 10-12 functions and was asked to reverse engineer its purpose. The final interview was on CS Fundamentals and Algorithms. I had to solve three programming problems and one design problem in 40 minutes. So, it was intense!!!
3 rounds of interview
One Coding round LC Medium for Recursion Backtracking
One round of coffee chat with an Engineer
Final round Hiring manager
Overall the process was super smooth, they had 2 weeks of gap between each round which was the only bummer
The interview process was slow unorganized and did not make any sense no follow up nothing made sense it was no good I do not recommend this it was a waste of time so not trying it
I applied through university. I interviewed at Yahoo (Chandigarh) in Mar 2025
Interview
it was easy not too many questions asked, was an online interview, the questioner was knowledgeable. they made sure that i was comfortable, they had several rounds for the same hiring process
