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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

April 1, 2015
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

3 Rounds onsite - Communications team

  1. a. Kth largest element in array - I used quicksort but discussed all possibilities before writing on the whiteboard. b. Find if a graph was connected or not - Used DFS and checked for visited nodes.

  2. OS concepts: threads, scheduling, file systems - The interviewer was really trying to gauge my system-level understanding by asking tricky questions back to back.

  3. Balanced binary tree, min stack.

It took a lot of time after the interview to convey the results. I was disappointed with the recruiter. The engineers were brilliant people.

Questions

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 6 interview experiences for the Yahoo Software Engineer role in Mountain View, California.

Success Rate

17%
Pass Rate

Yahoo's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Mountain View, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive33%
Neutral50%
Negative17%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Yahoo's Software Engineer interview process in Mountain View, California.

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