Yandex

30 minutes of theory. 30 minutes for two whiteboard algorithms that should take at least 1 hour. Some extra time for the candidate's questions. Sometimes there's a pre-interview section when you need to code algorithms online alone.

I applied through a recruiter and was invited to a phone interview. It included both personal and technical questions, which were not that hard. It was not easy to communicate with the recruiter because she was standing in a very loud room, and it

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.