Interesting work. Colleagues are very professional and intelligent.
Very nice office.
There are monthly funded meals.
You will find no bureaucracy. The working schedule is very flexible; you can work even at night, if you wish. You can work some time from nearby cafes using VPN. Work from home is also allowed, if required.
Yandex is an established company, so it seems there's no startup atmosphere anymore. There are lots of people who work here for many years; you'd barely get a promotion if you don't. The salary isn't low, but it's exactly the median on the market.
If you pretend to hire the most qualified people, you should offer a higher salary.
Give 5 hours OA. OA is really difficult; you need to solve about 3 of 5 problems. Then you have about 2-3 technical rounds. If you pass the technical rounds, then they start team matching. You will have interviews with the team; they can ask what th
The HR interview went well. Then I had three technical interviews, which were typical LeetCode algorithm interviews. After all of that, I had a final interview where I met my current team lead. We talked about my responsibilities, the product, and
I was asked five rather hard coding problems. I didn't feel any difference between them; they seemed like random LeetCode-like questions. Some were easy, and some were medium. At the end, there was an interview with the team. They said I was looking
Give 5 hours OA. OA is really difficult; you need to solve about 3 of 5 problems. Then you have about 2-3 technical rounds. If you pass the technical rounds, then they start team matching. You will have interviews with the team; they can ask what th
The HR interview went well. Then I had three technical interviews, which were typical LeetCode algorithm interviews. After all of that, I had a final interview where I met my current team lead. We talked about my responsibilities, the product, and
I was asked five rather hard coding problems. I didn't feel any difference between them; they seemed like random LeetCode-like questions. Some were easy, and some were medium. At the end, there was an interview with the team. They said I was looking