Yandex

Software Engineer Interview Experience - Moscow, Russia

March 1, 2023

Negative ExperienceGot Offer

Process

Typical algo interview, with thinking out loud and writing code on the Yandex interview platform. However, the interviewer can be very random, seemingly unable to care less about the results. They could easily be underqualified or just be doing their job rather than listening to you.

Questions

Find the longest monotonic subarray.

Find the number of substrings that contain only distinct characters.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 29 interview experiences for the Yandex Software Engineer role in Moscow, Russia.

Success Rate

31%

Pass Rate

Yandex's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Moscow, Russia is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive59%

Neutral24%

Negative17%

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

Yandex Work Experiences

All good though, Bablo seems weak

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Moscow, Moscow, Russia

September 6, 2021

Pros: Office, food, placement, people, opportunities.

Cons: Money, people, boring tasks, bad code.

All good though, Bablo seems weak

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Moscow, Moscow, Russia

September 6, 2021

Pros: Office, food, placement, people, opportunities.

Cons: Money, people, boring tasks, bad code.

Cool Company, Great Engineers

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Very cool company with a lot of good engineers.

Cons: No cons, actually. I think...

Cool Company, Great Engineers

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Very cool company with a lot of good engineers.

Cons: No cons, actually. I think...

Nice place to start

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Moscow, Moscow, Russia

Pros: Good culture and interesting tasks.

Cons: Low level compensation. Hard to grow in the company.

Nice place to start

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Moscow, Moscow, Russia

Pros: Good culture and interesting tasks.

Cons: Low level compensation. Hard to grow in the company.

All good though, Bablo seems weak

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Moscow, Moscow, Russia

September 6, 2021

Pros: Office, food, placement, people, opportunities.

Cons: Money, people, boring tasks, bad code.

5.0
All good though, Bablo seems weak
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
September 6, 2021
Pros: Office, food, placement, people, opportunities.
Cons: Money, people, boring tasks, bad code.

Cool Company, Great Engineers

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Very cool company with a lot of good engineers.

Cons: No cons, actually. I think...

5.0
Cool Company, Great Engineers
Software Engineer • Current Employee
April 6, 2022
Pros: Very cool company with a lot of good engineers.
Cons: No cons, actually. I think...

Nice place to start

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Moscow, Moscow, Russia

Pros: Good culture and interesting tasks.

Cons: Low level compensation. Hard to grow in the company.

5.0
Nice place to start
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
March 23, 2022
Pros: Good culture and interesting tasks.
Cons: Low level compensation. Hard to grow in the company.

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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