Yandex

The take-home test and live tech interview were part of the selection process. It went okay; the interviewers were friendly. I was also invited to take a culture fit interview.

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