I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Yelp in Feb 2014
Interview
Apply to Yelp online and get a phone screen from HR. Pretty simple questions that were posted by others before. Than a skype interview. Asked me about how to check if a bunch of braces are balanced and how to make the check faster. Also asked about interface and abstract class, generate random number, some operating system knowledge. Then a coding question about given a lowercase string 'ab',write a program to generate all possible lowercase and uppercase combination {'AB',‘Ab’,'aB' and 'ab'}.
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Question 1
a coding question about given a lowercase string 'ab',write a program to generate all possible lowercase and uppercase combination {'AB',‘Ab’,'aB' and 'ab'}
Leetcode style interview online via link, then a 1 on 1 technical interview with a lead developer also online where you can ask questions about the role and working at yelp, later more in depth technical tests and finally references and psicological tests.
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Talk about the project you are the most proud of, why do you want to work at yelp
Very intense. 4 back to back 45 minute interviews. One behaviour and four technical interviews.
Nice people but got the vibe everyone was happy with the work as it wasn’t too challenging.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Yelp (Toronto, ON) in May 2025
Interview
Around 3 different rounds with a mix of behavioural and technical. Last round features on-site which lasts the whole day, where there are 2 dsa rounds, 1 system design round and 1 recruiter round to end the day.
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Question 1
Walk us through one project you have done, and some of the challenges you encountered while working on this project
