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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - Sunnyvale, California

August 1, 2009
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I had two rounds of telephone interviews:

Round 1: Basic C++ questions

  • Difference between new and malloc
  • Virtual functions
  • VTable
  • Virtual destructors
  • REST/SOAP
  • Difference between POST and GET

Round 2:

  • Difference between a thread and a process
  • Spinlocks
  • Semaphores
  • Segmentation faults
  • Shared memory programming for interprocess communication

Questions

Linux platform specific questions:

What exact error is thrown when access violations happen?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 21 interview experiences for the Yahoo Senior Software Engineer role in Sunnyvale, California.

Success Rate

33%
Pass Rate

Yahoo's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in Sunnyvale, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive29%
Neutral29%
Negative43%

Candidates reported having negative feelings for Yahoo's Senior Software Engineer interview process in Sunnyvale, California.

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