Yandex

Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - Russia

March 15, 2021

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Process

Due to the pandemic, the interview took place via several Zoom sessions.

Despite attending the FoodTech Yandex division, most of the sections were conducted by Yandex.Taxi employees.

After all programming and architecture sections, I was offered the Software Engineer position, which I refused.

Questions

Design a geocaching algorithm for taxi drivers.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 13 interview experiences for the Yandex Senior Software Engineer role in Russia.

Success Rate

23%

Pass Rate

Yandex's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in Russia is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive92%

Neutral8%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Yandex's Senior Software Engineer interview process in Russia.

Yandex Work Experiences

Good Food, Career Line

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Saint Petersburg, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia

September 3, 2020

Pros: A lot of free food. In Russia, it is the most prospective company. Here, you need to work at least for a line in your resume.

Cons: As in all big companies, there's too much bureaucracy. You shouldn't choose Yandex; you should choose a command within Yandex in this case if you find an interesting job.

Good Food, Career Line

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Saint Petersburg, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia

September 3, 2020

Pros: A lot of free food. In Russia, it is the most prospective company. Here, you need to work at least for a line in your resume.

Cons: As in all big companies, there's too much bureaucracy. You shouldn't choose Yandex; you should choose a command within Yandex in this case if you find an interesting job.

You should work here

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Moscow, Moscow, Russia

Pros: Challenging problems. Great office and canteen. Vivid, changing environment, no corporate swamps. 24-hour office. No problems with vacations — can take them anytime, just notify in advance. Yandex contributes to hottest technologies — C++, CatBoost, Lego/BEM. The company's products are very well known and deserve pride.

Cons: Sometimes it is hard to sleep for 8 hours due to too much work. It is partly a matter of self-time management, but many colleagues are concerned. There is very little good documentation inside. Sometimes over-aggressive product marketing makes me sorry for that; I can't explain it to my relatives. Some management decisions are hard to reason about, but that is common in large corporations.

You should work here

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Moscow, Moscow, Russia

Pros: Challenging problems. Great office and canteen. Vivid, changing environment, no corporate swamps. 24-hour office. No problems with vacations — can take them anytime, just notify in advance. Yandex contributes to hottest technologies — C++, CatBoost, Lego/BEM. The company's products are very well known and deserve pride.

Cons: Sometimes it is hard to sleep for 8 hours due to too much work. It is partly a matter of self-time management, but many colleagues are concerned. There is very little good documentation inside. Sometimes over-aggressive product marketing makes me sorry for that; I can't explain it to my relatives. Some management decisions are hard to reason about, but that is common in large corporations.

Cool place to work

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Moscow, Moskva, Russia

Pros: Ability to grow faster than whatever.

Cons: Very hard interview tasks, relatively low base salary.

Cool place to work

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Moscow, Moskva, Russia

Pros: Ability to grow faster than whatever.

Cons: Very hard interview tasks, relatively low base salary.

Good Food, Career Line

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Saint Petersburg, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia

September 3, 2020

Pros: A lot of free food. In Russia, it is the most prospective company. Here, you need to work at least for a line in your resume.

Cons: As in all big companies, there's too much bureaucracy. You shouldn't choose Yandex; you should choose a command within Yandex in this case if you find an interesting job.

4.0
Good Food, Career Line
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
Saint Petersburg, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia
September 3, 2020
Pros: A lot of free food. In Russia, it is the most prospective company. Here, you need to work at least for a line in your resume.
Cons: As in all big companies, there's too much bureaucracy. You shouldn't choose Yandex; you should choose a command within Yandex in this case if you find an interesting job.

You should work here

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Moscow, Moscow, Russia

Pros: Challenging problems. Great office and canteen. Vivid, changing environment, no corporate swamps. 24-hour office. No problems with vacations — can take them anytime, just notify in advance. Yandex contributes to hottest technologies — C++, CatBoost, Lego/BEM. The company's products are very well known and deserve pride.

Cons: Sometimes it is hard to sleep for 8 hours due to too much work. It is partly a matter of self-time management, but many colleagues are concerned. There is very little good documentation inside. Sometimes over-aggressive product marketing makes me sorry for that; I can't explain it to my relatives. Some management decisions are hard to reason about, but that is common in large corporations.

5.0
You should work here
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
April 8, 2018
Pros: Challenging problems. Great office and canteen. Vivid, changing environment, no corporate swamps. 24-hour office. No problems with vacations — can take them anytime, just notify in advance. Yandex contributes to hottest technologies — C++, CatBoost, Lego/BEM. The company's products are very well known and deserve pride.
Cons: Sometimes it is hard to sleep for 8 hours due to too much work. It is partly a matter of self-time management, but many colleagues are concerned. There is very little good documentation inside. Sometimes over-aggressive product marketing makes me sorry for that; I can't explain it to my relatives. Some management decisions are hard to reason about, but that is common in large corporations.

Cool place to work

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Moscow, Moskva, Russia

Pros: Ability to grow faster than whatever.

Cons: Very hard interview tasks, relatively low base salary.

5.0
Cool place to work
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
Moscow, Moskva, Russia
June 7, 2020
Pros: Ability to grow faster than whatever.
Cons: Very hard interview tasks, relatively low base salary.

Yandex Interview Questions

Summary Ranges

You're given a sorted array of integers and need to return a list of ranges summarizing the consecutive numbers. Each range should be represented as "a->b" if a != b, or just "a" if a == b.

ArraysStringsTwo Pointers

Maximize Distance to Closest Person

You're given a row of seats, some occupied and some empty. Find the best seat to maximize the distance to the nearest person.

Longest Subarray of 1's After Deleting One Element

Find the longest contiguous subarray containing only 1s after deleting at most one element from the given binary array (containing only 0s and 1s).

ArraysSliding Windows

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