I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2011
Interview
When I was asked for my availability for a phone interview, it took them a long time to respond. It seemed like the person who interviewed me didn't really have any technical experience, and was reading questions off a list. I tried to walk through my thinking with a few of the questions, but it seemed like the only thing that mattered was the exact right answer. I was expecting more algorithm-based questions, like how to efficiently do a certain task... instead, all they asked me were very low-level, language-specific questions that I feel like one doesn't really need to know off the top of their heads.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
How many bytes does a 32 bit operating system work with?
I interviewed at Yelp (London, England) in Jan 2020
Interview
First interview purely logistical and HR related, followed by 1 technical interview with a leetcode easy question, then a week later 1 Behavioral Interview followed by technical interview with leetcode medium question back to back. Interviewees were very friendly, encouraging and helpful
Applied through their website. Received an email asking for a quick chat. Arranged within the week. Some chit-chat and then some rapid-fire technical questions. By the end of the conversation i was informed that i passed the round and we should arranged a skype interview with an engineer. Received an email a few days later that the intern positions were full.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- port and protocol of HTTP
- what ssl stands for and used for
- how many bits to represent an octad digit
- max int with unsigned 32bit
- what structure for binary search: linked list or sorted array?
- insertion time in a linked list
Got the phone screen pretty quickly and was called by a recruiter for a pretty short conversation. The recruiter was really flexible about my schedule and a nice guy. Started the conversation with a few questions about what I would be interested in doing at the company, what my favorite languages to code in are. Then he asked some rapid-fire knowledge-based questions. They're on here for the most part--can't remember any that arent. He let me know at the end of the screen that I qualified for the interview with an engineer which we set up on the spot