Yandex is really a modern tech company.
Smart people, interesting projects, flexible working hours, a beautiful office, rather good insurance, and nice business trips to Moscow HQ if needed.
Office could have a better location in St. Petersburg.
Big company - some processes can be not so efficient as they could be.
Salary is less than you can earn with the same skills in other companies.
World conferences (e.g. IO, WWDC) are sometimes not sponsored due to low budget or non-core profile.
The process seemed to change around 2014, and is now more reminiscent of the one big companies use. Candidates pass through a phone screen (1 hour) and then 4 or more on-site interviews (1 hour each), depending on the number of teams the candidate i
Typical interviews include exercises from HackerRank (mostly Cracking the Coding Interview) and usual questions. You can prepare by solving different problems from HackerRank or LeetCode. It's preferable to focus on arrays and strings.
1 HR call, 2 standard coding DSA rounds, and a 1-hour talk with the team lead about: - My experience - Past projects' architecture (public API maintenance, microservices, etc.) - How the web works (from DNS to sockets)
The process seemed to change around 2014, and is now more reminiscent of the one big companies use. Candidates pass through a phone screen (1 hour) and then 4 or more on-site interviews (1 hour each), depending on the number of teams the candidate i
Typical interviews include exercises from HackerRank (mostly Cracking the Coding Interview) and usual questions. You can prepare by solving different problems from HackerRank or LeetCode. It's preferable to focus on arrays and strings.
1 HR call, 2 standard coding DSA rounds, and a 1-hour talk with the team lead about: - My experience - Past projects' architecture (public API maintenance, microservices, etc.) - How the web works (from DNS to sockets)