Yelp

Software Engineer Interview Experience - Toronto, Ontario

June 1, 2021

Positive ExperienceNo Response

Process

The interview process consists of:

One round of online assessment (LeetCode Medium).
One round of interview with a recruiting representative.
Four rounds of one-on-one interviews with Yelp engineers, covering LeetCode Mediums, system designs, and typical interpersonal questions.

Questions

Design a ranking system where employees can send "Yelp Love" to each other and track the number of "love" sent and received.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 7 interview experiences for the Yelp Software Engineer role in Toronto, Ontario.

Success Rate

14%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive57%

Neutral29%

Negative14%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Yelp's Software Engineer interview process in Toronto, Ontario.

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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