Yelp

Software Engineer Interview Experience

October 22, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Leetcode-style interview online via link, then a 1-on-1 technical interview with a lead developer, also online, where you can ask questions about the role and working at Yelp. Later, more in-depth technical tests, and finally, references and psychological tests.

Questions

Talk about the project you are the most proud of. Why do you want to work at Yelp?

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 359 interview experiences for the Yelp Software Engineer role.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive45%

Neutral38%

Negative17%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Yelp's Software Engineer interview process.

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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