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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

February 1, 2016
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied on the Yelp website, I was reached out by a recruiter the next day. We had a nice general phone screen; the recruiter asked about my work and project experience and introduced their company. It went well, then followed by an online coding challenge. The question was easy, but it was annoying to deal with stdin as the input. The reason I say it's annoying was because you have very limited time to solve the problem, while more than half of the time was spent on how to set up stdin correctly.

However, it's very interesting to solve a problem like that. I failed to figure out the configuration correctly with high time pressure.

Questions

Simple coding question

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 92 interview experiences for the Yelp Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

14%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive50%
Neutral32%
Negative18%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Yelp's Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.

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