Product Designer applicants have rated the interview process at Yelp with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 55.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Product Designer roles take an average of 70 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Yelp overall takes an average of 35 days.
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I applied through university. I interviewed at Yelp in Aug 2018
Interview
Yelp has a design challenge for the product designer position. Many of my colleagues and I were invited to do the design challenge, which took at least 20 hours, and they rejected most people with a generic copy-pasted response without even interviewing them. I was able to reach a 1st round interview and present my design challenge, then 2 days later I was rejected. The rejection was fine, bit it was when I asked for additional feedback on my interview, the recruiter refused "due to company policy." This is a highly unprofessional interview process that is very much a waste of everyone's time. I will not be applying to Yelp again.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What else would you have done if you had more time?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp in Sept 2021
Interview
Initial call with the internal recruiter. (30-45 mins). Talk through past experiences, describe current work, processes, and approach to gauge role fit.
The second interview with a design leader (45 mins).
This interview went into more detail about the design process and experience.
First interview with recruiter, which ended up taking about 1-2 months.
Second interview with hiring manger with basic questions.
Final interview was with many different people from the team, who don’t take the time to understand and listen to your answers. Read questions off script and didn't listen to my answers, as I was continually disrupted mid-sentence.
False information was given and no feedback was given, despite being asked.
I applied through other source. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp (Toronto, ON) in Aug 2021
Interview
HR calling and screening
Product lead Interview
7 people interview during 3h30 including 1 Project Manager, 1 Design Manager, 2 Senior Designers for a portfolio review, 1 Design Thinking test with 2 Designers
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How did you manage business strategy over UX?
Have you failed and what was you reaction?
How do you measure success?