Yelp

Software Engineer Interview Experience

September 1, 2019

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied online.

Received a reply about a week later.

First step: a 30-minute coding challenge on Hackerrank.com (1 question). Received a reply the next day.

Second step: a 45-minute phone interview with the engineering leader (experience and 1 coding question). Received a reply about a week later.

Questions

Q: Given a set of users' subscribed data and several updated data sorted by time, return a list of users whose subscribe status has changed after the update.

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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.

Yelp Work Experiences

Good place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

November 19, 2022

Pros: - Good work-life balance - Good technical level - Enjoyable company culture - Reasonable total compensation - Remote work available

Cons: - Poor bonus and pension scheme - Holiday allowance could be better

Good place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

November 19, 2022

Pros: - Good work-life balance - Good technical level - Enjoyable company culture - Reasonable total compensation - Remote work available

Cons: - Poor bonus and pension scheme - Holiday allowance could be better

Make an impact with a good work/life balance

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Pros: Friendly culture, and the scope of your work will be pretty large. This doesn't mean you will be overworked, though, because Yelp really values WLB and does not feel cutthroat. Great environment to learn and grow. Corporate strategy during COVID has been great.

Cons: Comp could be better, especially in high CoL cities like Vancouver/Toronto. Prod/Eng seems understaffed, especially when compared to competitors (Google/FB/etc.), but we are hiring a lot.

Make an impact with a good work/life balance

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Pros: Friendly culture, and the scope of your work will be pretty large. This doesn't mean you will be overworked, though, because Yelp really values WLB and does not feel cutthroat. Great environment to learn and grow. Corporate strategy during COVID has been great.

Cons: Comp could be better, especially in high CoL cities like Vancouver/Toronto. Prod/Eng seems understaffed, especially when compared to competitors (Google/FB/etc.), but we are hiring a lot.

Nice work-life balance

Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

Pros: Chill place, nice people, good management.

Cons: Even though there were no major layoffs during the last year, the company struggles financially, which makes them cut expenses on employees.

Nice work-life balance

Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

Pros: Chill place, nice people, good management.

Cons: Even though there were no major layoffs during the last year, the company struggles financially, which makes them cut expenses on employees.

Good place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

November 19, 2022

Pros: - Good work-life balance - Good technical level - Enjoyable company culture - Reasonable total compensation - Remote work available

Cons: - Poor bonus and pension scheme - Holiday allowance could be better

5.0
Good place to work
Software Engineer • Current Employee
London, England, United Kingdom
November 19, 2022
Pros: - Good work-life balance - Good technical level - Enjoyable company culture - Reasonable total compensation - Remote work available
Cons: - Poor bonus and pension scheme - Holiday allowance could be better

Make an impact with a good work/life balance

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Pros: Friendly culture, and the scope of your work will be pretty large. This doesn't mean you will be overworked, though, because Yelp really values WLB and does not feel cutthroat. Great environment to learn and grow. Corporate strategy during COVID has been great.

Cons: Comp could be better, especially in high CoL cities like Vancouver/Toronto. Prod/Eng seems understaffed, especially when compared to competitors (Google/FB/etc.), but we are hiring a lot.

4.0
Make an impact with a good work/life balance
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
July 14, 2021
Pros: Friendly culture, and the scope of your work will be pretty large. This doesn't mean you will be overworked, though, because Yelp really values WLB and does not feel cutthroat. Great environment to learn and grow. Corporate strategy during COVID has been great.
Cons: Comp could be better, especially in high CoL cities like Vancouver/Toronto. Prod/Eng seems understaffed, especially when compared to competitors (Google/FB/etc.), but we are hiring a lot.

Nice work-life balance

Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

Pros: Chill place, nice people, good management.

Cons: Even though there were no major layoffs during the last year, the company struggles financially, which makes them cut expenses on employees.

4.0
Nice work-life balance
Software Engineer • Current Employee
London, England, United Kingdom
April 21, 2024
Pros: Chill place, nice people, good management.
Cons: Even though there were no major layoffs during the last year, the company struggles financially, which makes them cut expenses on employees.

Yelp Interview Questions

Destination City

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.

ArraysStringsGraphs

Course Schedule

Determine if it is possible to finish all courses given prerequisite relationships between them. Essentially, detect if a cycle exists in the course dependencies.

GraphsRecursion

Filter Restaurants by Vegan-Friendly, Price and Distance

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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