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Search and Data Mining Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

February 1, 2016
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Process

The process starts with a basic phone screen to check your background and your motivation for working with the company. You'll then receive a fairly short take-home assignment from HackerRank and a Skype call to assess your coding ability. Lastly, you'll have the on-site interview.

During the on-site, you'll be brought in and have lunch with a fellow Yelper to chat. Sometimes, there's a one-hour seminar on a random topic someone wants to lecture about within the company (I've heard it can range from wine tasting to astronomy). My seminar was on Tableau software.

The interview process includes four one-hour sessions with whiteboarding. If you're a strong coder with some knowledge of machine learning and algorithms, you should do fine.

Questions

Coding and algorithm questions tying into something you would see on the job (e.g., spam team, search team, etc.)

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Yelp Search and Data Mining Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

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Yelp's interview process for their Search and Data Mining Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very good feelings for Yelp's Search and Data Mining Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.

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