I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Yahoo (Bengaluru) in Jul 2011
Interview
Attended the interview today!!!
Knew in advance that for them Experience level does not matter.
So prepared on data structure and algorithms for a week.
Initial round Phone interview(30 min) :-
Asked basic details about my work, then suddenly datastructure questions.
1) Find median from continuously changing stream of data.
2) Find 2nd maximum in array.
3) Find nth largest in Array.
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Called for f2f discussion.
All 3 technical and one hiring manager rounds consisted of only data structures.
No one asked anything in Java. Though I was called as Java requirement.
Dont know why so much concentration on data structures only.
Also, I feel my skills were not matching, as they wanted someone who has worked on PHP,Perl.
Honestly, I was not expecting negative reply but I guess my 2nd technical round and skills impacted my interview.
At the end I feel that if you want to go to yahoo, then study like a fresher preparing for your first job. Experience level doesn't matter.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) Write merge function to merge 2 arrays into single array.
2) Find the length of linked list loop.
3) How to get the values of two elements from array whose sum is N.
2nd round :
1) Get nth largest/smallest from BST.
2) How will you remove duplicate paragraph from big file.
Told hashmap, asked me to write hashcode :-(
3) Perform merge of multiple arrays. (k way merge)
Thought for sometime, but could not tell. :-(
3rd round :
1) Middle of linked list
2) sum in binary search tree
3) Some unix questions.
4) How will u design Google maps or yahoo maps.
4th Round :
Puzzle on 25 horses.
The overall interview process was positive and well-structured. It consisted of five rounds in total:
Round 1: Initial recruiter screening call.
Round 2: Hiring manager interview.
Round 3: Frontend technical problem via CoderPad.
Round 4: Final loop (3 rounds).
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Yahoo
Interview
Started with a phone screen round, then 5 virtual onsite rounds consisting of two System Designs, two Behavioural rounds and a DSA round was taken. All of the interviewers came well prepared and conducted the interviews smoothly.
Intro call
System design
Technical discussion
Product collaboration
Technical screening
No dsa and leetcode, no take home assignment which is nice. Hard to prep for either you will pass or fail nothing to really practice
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a time when, what was your role in xyz project
