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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Champaign, Illinois

December 1, 2013
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied online. Contacted by Director/Manager.

1 Phone Interview:

  • Reviewed your resume
  • Discussed programming/development experience
  • Answered a simple algorithm question

Whole day of onsite interviews:

  • 1 manager interview describing work at Champaign
  • 4 1:1 interviews with developers/architects
  • Followed by a wrap-up interview with another manager

1 interview on object-oriented design 1 interview on algorithms 2 interviews on topics of your choice

Questions were stupid and uncharacteristic of a good software engineering company. Algorithm interviews were a joke. Object-oriented design interview was good.

Questions

Design an OO solution for a chess game, focusing on Hadoop.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 16 interview experiences for the Yahoo Software Engineer role in Champaign, Illinois.

Success Rate

13%
Pass Rate

Yahoo's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Champaign, Illinois is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive63%
Neutral31%
Negative6%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Yahoo's Software Engineer interview process in Champaign, Illinois.

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