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Software Engineer Interview Experience

September 15, 2016
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I got the interview by participating in a Kaggle competition hosted by Yelp. There was one code test followed by a phone interview, and then they told me that I was declined.

The position might have been associated with image processing, with which I am not very familiar. They asked questions about machine learning, algorithms, and also image processing, including deep learning.

Questions

The code test was an easy problem, and there were many languages available to solve it. I used Python.

For the phone interview, they asked many details about my solution to that Kaggle problem, followed by some machine learning questions. Finally, I was asked to write Python code to randomly shuffle a string.

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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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