Yahoo

Software Engineer Interview Experience

November 1, 2017

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I had a technical interview with the MBP engineering team.

It was for a new team that was going to be created.

The interview process was not bad, but the problem occurred after the interview.

I did not receive any email from the interviewer, even a week after the interview.

So, I sent a follow-up email, but I did not receive any response from them even until today.

That was about six months ago.

Questions

Find the maximum depth of the tree.

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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.

Yahoo Work Experiences

Good culture, no innovation

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Pros: - Great people, culture, and working environment. - Good perks: staff functions, activities, corporate mobile, health fund reimbursement, etc.

Cons: - Lack of desire to innovate or do things well. - Focus is always on the bottom line; best practices and delivering an excellent product are eschewed for minimum viable products with no further iterations.

Good culture, no innovation

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Pros: - Great people, culture, and working environment. - Good perks: staff functions, activities, corporate mobile, health fund reimbursement, etc.

Cons: - Lack of desire to innovate or do things well. - Focus is always on the bottom line; best practices and delivering an excellent product are eschewed for minimum viable products with no further iterations.

Lack of innovation

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

November 18, 2013

Pros: Free food, multiple onsite events.

Cons: Lack of innovation in most of the teams. Change is not welcome. There is constant denial of better products in the market. There is no clear career path as teams are huge and have dual power centers. The manager knows so little as compared to the tech lead, who virtually dictates the entire project.

Lack of innovation

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

November 18, 2013

Pros: Free food, multiple onsite events.

Cons: Lack of innovation in most of the teams. Change is not welcome. There is constant denial of better products in the market. There is no clear career path as teams are huge and have dual power centers. The manager knows so little as compared to the tech lead, who virtually dictates the entire project.

Great Culture, Stale Innovation

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

August 19, 2015

Pros: Amazing work culture. Lots of interesting challenges to deal with.

Cons: Lack of innovation. Lack of motivation among senior employees.

Great Culture, Stale Innovation

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

August 19, 2015

Pros: Amazing work culture. Lots of interesting challenges to deal with.

Cons: Lack of innovation. Lack of motivation among senior employees.

Good culture, no innovation

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Pros: - Great people, culture, and working environment. - Good perks: staff functions, activities, corporate mobile, health fund reimbursement, etc.

Cons: - Lack of desire to innovate or do things well. - Focus is always on the bottom line; best practices and delivering an excellent product are eschewed for minimum viable products with no further iterations.

3.0
Good culture, no innovation
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
July 22, 2015
Pros: - Great people, culture, and working environment. - Good perks: staff functions, activities, corporate mobile, health fund reimbursement, etc.
Cons: - Lack of desire to innovate or do things well. - Focus is always on the bottom line; best practices and delivering an excellent product are eschewed for minimum viable products with no further iterations.

Lack of innovation

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

November 18, 2013

Pros: Free food, multiple onsite events.

Cons: Lack of innovation in most of the teams. Change is not welcome. There is constant denial of better products in the market. There is no clear career path as teams are huge and have dual power centers. The manager knows so little as compared to the tech lead, who virtually dictates the entire project.

1.0
Lack of innovation
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Sunnyvale, California, United States
November 18, 2013
Pros: Free food, multiple onsite events.
Cons: Lack of innovation in most of the teams. Change is not welcome. There is constant denial of better products in the market. There is no clear career path as teams are huge and have dual power centers. The manager knows so little as compared to the tech lead, who virtually dictates the entire project.

Great Culture, Stale Innovation

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Sunnyvale, California, United States

August 19, 2015

Pros: Amazing work culture. Lots of interesting challenges to deal with.

Cons: Lack of innovation. Lack of motivation among senior employees.

4.0
Great Culture, Stale Innovation
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Sunnyvale, California, United States
August 19, 2015
Pros: Amazing work culture. Lots of interesting challenges to deal with.
Cons: Lack of innovation. Lack of motivation among senior employees.

Yahoo Interview Questions

Two Sum

Find two numbers in a given array that add up to a specific target value, and return their indices. Essentially, you need to efficiently locate the pair that satisfies the sum requirement.

Contains Duplicate

Determine if any value appears at least twice in an array of numbers. Return true if duplicates exist; otherwise, return false.

Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters

Find the length of the longest substring within a given string that contains no repeating characters. The substring must be contiguous.

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