To put it in one sentence: Interviewing at Yahoo! is a waste of your time. Don't do it unless you have nothing better to do.

I had two phone screens. The first one involved simple coding questions, and the second was just a casual chat with the hiring manager. It took them three weeks to conduct these interviews.

After that, I was invited onsite to speak with five out of six people. Again, it took three weeks to get this one scheduled.

I cleared this interview and was told by HR that she would present my case to the hiring committee. After two weeks, I was told that the hiring committee had rejected me. WTF! Rejected for what? Clearing all interviews with the team?

The entire process took over eight weeks.

One funny thing, though: in almost each email, HR would ask me to let her know if I had changed my mind regarding joining Yahoo!. I mean, do you really want me to join Yahoo! or not?

Coding, projects I had worked on, some problems which the team was working on, etc. Nothing out of the ordinary.