Yelp

Senior Backend Engineer Interview Experience - London, United Kingdom

February 1, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

HackerRank coding challenge
First interview: 45 minutes, conversational, discussing your tech project.
Final: Two technical interviews (coding/system design) and one behavioral interview, all on the same day.

Questions

First interview:

They got into my current project and talked all about the technical stuff.

Interview Statistics

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

Experience Rating

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Candidates reported having very good feelings for Yelp's Senior Backend Engineer interview process in London, United Kingdom.

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.

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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.

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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.

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