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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Sunnyvale, California

June 1, 2014
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Process

  1. Phone Screen with my perspective manager. I joked around, made sure Yahoo did not support IE6, and asked questions about their development processes.

  2. Technical Phone Screen with a Senior Engineer. He asked me to make a form from scratch that did something.

  3. Onsite Interview - Came in for 3 hours and met the team. It was sort of informal. I answered questions and joked around. I didn't know how to do some of the questions but figured them out in a couple of minutes by bouncing ideas off my interviewers. They look for how fast you can adapt and how interested you are in the coding language and technologies. Also, from a UI and design perspective, they look at how you code things to make it easier for the user.

One of my interviewers mentioned something he saw on Hacker News, and I had seen the same thing the day before, so we chatted about it.

I also think that attitude counts hugely at Yahoo. There are no egos on my team. Your personality has to match too.

I wasn't asked any difficult algorithm questions like they do at Facebook and Google; it was all just stuff directly related to the job. You don't have to be a genius to work here, but if you put in some hard work and learn from the people smarter than you, then you will go far. Don't be put off by the big name.

Questions

How would you handle correcting a mistake that your manager made?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 79 interview experiences for the Yahoo Software Engineer role in Sunnyvale, California.

Success Rate

41%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive54%
Neutral20%
Negative25%

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

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