Awesome offices, badass professional colleagues.
Intranet infrastructure and internal tools are extremely usable and practical.
Social package and compensations are worth mentioning; they are quite good.
Too many discussions of everything and sometimes too much politics instead of development. As the company grew to several thousand employees and passed its IPO, the startup culture started to vanish.
The interview had several sections over several days: * Coding: No whiteboard, laptop with IDE instead. * Algorithms questions and data structures: This part was done with handwriting. * Architecture: This section involved handwriting. * Fin
It was not awful. For sure, it is better than it was back then, but still too abstract and far from real-world tasks. Yandex is famous for its algorithmic approach to interviews, and I see they are trying to get rid of this label.
You need to go through five technical interview stages: * Live coding * Algorithmic interview * Experience check * Systems design * Introduction to possible teams Between stages, there is usually a week's pause and a long wait for feedbac
The interview had several sections over several days: * Coding: No whiteboard, laptop with IDE instead. * Algorithms questions and data structures: This part was done with handwriting. * Architecture: This section involved handwriting. * Fin
It was not awful. For sure, it is better than it was back then, but still too abstract and far from real-world tasks. Yandex is famous for its algorithmic approach to interviews, and I see they are trying to get rid of this label.
You need to go through five technical interview stages: * Live coding * Algorithmic interview * Experience check * Systems design * Introduction to possible teams Between stages, there is usually a week's pause and a long wait for feedbac