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Software Engineer Interview Experience

November 9, 2014
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Interview for a position of Software Engineer in the Ads & Data team.

First Part - Coding Exercise Build a Boggle game and output the longest word. Use whatever language you want. Time to do the exercise: 1 hour.

Second Part - 3 Interviews (Whiteboard Coding) Interviews related to your team. Normal coding exercises (databases, regex, and trees for me).

Questions

Regex Question

Build a function that takes one string and one regex expression as input and outputs true if the string matches the regex expression.

Example:

  • String: a-z
  • Regex: a-z+*

(where '*' matches 0 or more characters and '+' matches one character)

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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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