Yelp

Backend Engineer Interview Experience - United States

October 1, 2017

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview began with some introductory questions about my interest, why I wanted to work there, and why this position. Then we began the technical interview, spending about an hour on a coding question. We left some time at the end for questions.

Questions

Why backend?

Was this helpful?

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Yelp Backend Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

Yelp's interview process for their Backend Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive67%

Neutral33%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Yelp's Backend Engineer interview process in United States.

Yelp Interview Questions

Destination City

Easy

You are given a list of paths, where each path connects two cities. Find the destination city, which is the city that has a path coming in but no path going out.

ArraysStringsGraphs

Filter Restaurants by Vegan-Friendly, Price and Distance

Medium

You're given a list of restaurants with their vegan-friendly status, price, and distance. Select the restaurants that match specified vegan, price, and distance criteria and return their IDs in sorted order.

Arrays

Course Schedule

Medium

Determine if it is possible to finish all courses given prerequisite relationships between them. Essentially, detect if a cycle exists in the course dependencies.

GraphsRecursion