I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Yandex (Moscow, Moskva) in Aug 2021
Interview
The position was provided by a freelance recruiter, then he scheduled 2-3 interviews the week he wrote me, I successfully cleared them (the interviewers were extremely nice) but was not provided an offer after the final "meat the team" interview.
You need to go through five technical interview stages:
Livecoding
Algometric interview
Experience check
Systems design
Introduction to possible teams
Between stages there is usually a week's pause and a long wait for feedback
when you think you haven't passed yet you can get positive feedback
First screening internet is very basic - just spoke about my experience in a call
First and second technical interview was video call + screen sharing + code writing in the special Yandex environment (you can’t run JS code only write it)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First technical interview were with not hard but tricky questions about JS: like “this”, type conversion, etc
Second was a bit harder: setTimeout, callbacks, call / bind / apply, etc
Probably the next one should contain some algorithmic tasks
Was not awful. For sure is better than it was back then, but still too abstract and far from real-world tasks. Yandex is famous for his algorithmic approach to an interview and I see they are trying to get rid of this label.
