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Software Engineer Interview Experience

February 16, 2015
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Process

I sat down for an afternoon of interviews after a few phone calls.

The first interviewer did not know he was interviewing me until the morning of the interviews. He took 15 minutes out of the 30 given for a technical interview, asking about my background. He was also unable to articulate his question about Hash tables.

Outside of this poor experience, the other three interviewers were very interested. They used the full 45 minutes provided to them to ask a question and then dive deeper into space/time complexity.

Questions

Sample Questions:

  1. Given a pre-order traversal of a BST represented by an array of integers, generate the tree.

  2. Given an infinite number of servers with an infinite amount of integers on each server, return the median integer. Assume a finite amount of space and time.

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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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