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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - Sunnyvale, California

June 1, 2010
Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

Interviewed for a backend position.

The phone screening was mostly revolved around server scalability issues and connection stacking.

The personal interview was mainly based on my previous projects and technologies.

The whole experience was smooth.

Questions

How to deal with the scenario of connection stacking and the number of open connections in a mail server?

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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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