An employee referred me to an Architect level software engineering position within the company. A couple weeks after he forwarded my resume to the hiring manager, I received an initial phone call from the hiring manager. The hiring manager was pleasant and very easy to speak with. We made plans for phone interviews and on-site interviews. The manager sent me an official job description. The job description clearly indicated that the job was an "architect" level position. However, my on-site invitation referred to the position as a "Sr Principal Engineer" role. Later, the recruiter verbally confirmed that Yahoo would offer me a "Principal Engineer" position. Is this a bait-n-switch act. I don't know for sure, but I don't like the initial feelings I have about it. Over the course of a week, the architect job has disappeared and has rematerialized as a job title 2 or 3 levels lower. This simply does not agree with my initial expectations for the job role and title.

Had a couple of rounds of phone interviews. There were lots of questions about algorithms specific to hadoop. Interviewed initially for the grid computing team though the technical went well, some gaps were found and Yahoo is planning to interview me for a different