I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Yahoo (Bengaluru) in Jan 2015
Interview
Telephonic screening followed by multiple F2F rounds . After telephonic interview, there will be multiple face to face rounds in the company. Final round is HR and a discussion with hiring manager.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Telephonic screening followed by multiple F2F rounds . After telephonic interview, there will be multiple face to face rounds in the company.
Pretty standard ones, Linux internals, Networking, Security and scripting
I applied in-person. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Yahoo (Sunnyvale, CA) in Aug 2014
Interview
I was advised it was going to be a 2 months process.
I had already contract for Yahoo so I went directly to the 5-hour interview with five interviewers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Interview was very technical, ranging from easy questions such as how to get the return code for a command ($?), how to find out swapping usage, how to troubleshoot an slow web site( cluster of 400 hosts) to how to troubleshoot one specific ads not showing on the web site. Questions about scripting, such as how parallelize a curl to different hosts. How to implement monitoring (either passive or active and why). Explain SSL handshake. Implement manually a log rotation. Troubleshoot machine rebooting very often. Unix internals: concept of stack,heap. Describe in detail your biggest accomplishments.
