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Software Engineer Interview Experience

May 1, 2013
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

First, a recruiter asks some behavioral questions, such as "Why Yelp?" and "What are the three things you care most about when choosing a job?" She also asked several one-sentence technical questions, which can all be found in the reviews.

This was followed by two phone interviews with engineers.

A load balancer question was posed: Given [(a, 1), (b, 1), (c, 8)], where a, b, and c represent machines, and 1, 1, and 8 represent their respective probabilities (e.g., 1/(1+1+8) chance of returning 'a', 8/(1+1+8) chance of returning 'c'), write code to implement the balancer. How would you test it?

Questions

Ask a lot about how you would test it.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 280 interview experiences for the Yelp Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

9%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive43%
Neutral44%
Negative14%

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

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