Software Engineer Interview Experience - Sunnyvale, California
Process
Phone screen with the director for the team to which I was interviewing.
It went well. We talked about my background and skills, what I was looking for, and what they were trying to accomplish.
The onsite portion consisted of several hour-long interviews, including an hour for lunch.
The questions were fairly easy, in the general vein of problem-solving, design patterns, distributed computing, and programming questions.
Questions
Find the prime numbers less than 10,000 using dynamic programming.
Fix a URL matching program written by a junior engineer that takes 4 weeks to output the number of URLs from a set of 100 billion that match a known set of 1 billion URLs. The 1 billion URLs are stored on disk, the machine has 1GB of RAM, and the 100B set is arriving over the network. How to make it take only 4 days?
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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
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
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Yahoo's Software Engineer interview process in Sunnyvale, California.
Yahoo Work Experiences
- 5.0Inspiring CEO, brilliant co-workers, great foodSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeSunnyvale, California, United StatesOctober 27, 2014Pros: My team gave me near-complete freedom to work on my project as an intern, and supported me all through (even with radical ideas). Very thorough, we tested and documented everything, but weren't afraid to try out new things. There was a lot of interaction between teams, including the research labs. Co-workers are usually in high spirits, and the food is pretty awesome.Cons: Probably small websites that have little to no traffic, but they've started to deal with that.
- 2.0I have been working for Yahoo for 6 yearsSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSunnyvale, California, United StatesMarch 12, 2015Pros: - Good benefit. - Nice gym and very healthy food and snacks. - Work with very talented people.Cons: - Very political. - No 401K benefit. - A lot of nonsense long meetings.
- 3.0Disjuncted Employee BaseSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSunnyvale, California, United StatesMarch 3, 2016Pros: Benefits, perks, hours, software possibilities.Cons: For many years, foreigners have been allowed to infiltrate the corporate ladder with their proprietary tech. It's the worst example of outsourcing and attempting to bring it home fruitfully. Neither side of their continent speaks to the other technologically in building D. Related to offshore executives promoting themselves internally, innovative thought has been continually stifled year over year. It's unattractive to new grads, industry leaders, and even the intelligence community wants no part of attracting scum advertisers.
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