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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

January 1, 2014
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I was contacted by a recruiter and asked the same questions as mentioned in previous comments. It was basic CS trivia.

I was then scheduled for a Skype interview with an engineer.

The engineer asked general questions about my past experiences and previous positions, and a coding question using an online shared notepad with a compiler. This allowed us to execute the code I wrote and test it for some use cases.

Even though I managed to correctly solve the problem without syntax or logical errors, and all the test cases passed successfully on the very first try, I was rejected.

Absurd.

Questions

Given a list of strings, write a function to calculate the longest common prefix (LCP) of all those strings.

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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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