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Software Engineer Interview Experience

April 4, 2015
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Process

It is a two-screen process at Yahoo. The interviewers are great and help in case you get stuck. They basically check your programming knowledge and logical concepts. Even if you write the code a bit incorrectly, it won't affect your result unless you tell them the correct algorithm.

Things that should be prepared before the interview include:

  • Linked Lists
  • Stacks
  • Queues
  • Arrays and Strings
  • Searching and Sorting
  • Trees and Graphs

Questions

Check if the string is balanced. For example, {{}} should return true.

Given an input sentence, tokenize it and print the word count. For example, the boy went to the school -> the 2, boy 1, went 1, to 1, school 1.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 296 interview experiences for the Yahoo Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

22%
Pass Rate

Yahoo's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive43%
Neutral36%
Negative20%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Yahoo's Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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