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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

September 1, 2013
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

1st Round: HR contacted and asked 10 rapid-fire technical questions:

  • How many bits in octal?
  • kill -9 signal
  • How to get all instances of a class?
  • What is the command in Unix to find IP configuration information?
  • Inner join is what out of A union B, A intersect B, and A - B?
  • HTTP port number
  • SSL full form and its purpose
  • Complexity of some search.

2nd Skype Technical Interview: The interviewer called, introduced himself, and told me about Yelp. Then he asked:

  1. Why Yelp?
  2. What is the most challenging project you have done so far?
  3. What were the challenges?
  4. What technologies did you use?
  5. What did you learn?

Questions

Main Technical Question:

Write a function that takes an array of words as input:

input => ['cat', 'star', 'act', 'god', 'arts', 'dog', 'rats']

and returns a sorted array:

output => ['cat', 'act', 'god', 'dog', 'start', 'arts', 'rats']

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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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