The incredible atmosphere in the company allows you to feel comfortable and motivates you to create the best software. Flexible hours.
Super comfortable office, free lunches and snacks, MacBooks, and free parking.
Interesting and sophisticated projects. Very talented and skillful people.
Really competitive salaries and bonuses.
The only cons come from the pros. Sometimes, you are not punished for not meeting deadlines or for being in the office too little. Of course, this highly depends on the project, but some of them are too "carefree" and kind to the employee.
There was also a case of conflicts between management in Moscow and St. Petersburg, which was resolved in favor of the Moscow ones only because they were friends of senior managers there. This was unfair and resulted in the firing of dozens of pretty skillful St. Petersburg managers and tech guys. Though in general, this doesn't prove that there are inner problems in Yandex, it's still incredible and the best IT company in Russia.
P.S. I like the design of the St. Petersburg office even more than Google's ones in Zurich and London :)
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Due to the pandemic, the interview took place via several Zoom sessions. Despite attending the FoodTech Yandex division, most of the sections were conducted by Yandex.Taxi employees. After all programming and architecture sections, I was offered th
Standard LeetCode interview. One easy task, a few medium tasks. An additional system design interview to increase salary. The interview process includes: * 3-5 coding steps * System design (optional) * A behavioral interview.
Yandex Cloud. First of all, the interviewer was a little bit rude. It wasn't an interview; it was like an exam at university. The interviewer described a lot of rules for when your task could be counted as incomplete. This was the main negative exp