Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Yandex as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Backend Developer and rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Backend Developer and roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Yandex takes an average of 1 day when considering 1 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Backend Developer had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Backend Developer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 1 day).
Boring
Unprofessional
Interview just asked very abstract questions,without any context and explanation. I passed case correct, but he wrote me after our call- you passed case but not so perfect …
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Yandex (Belgrade, Central Serbia) in Feb 2025
Interview
3 rounds of general interviews (leetcode, ml theory, recsys related) and then one per product team.
Leetcode was not that hard, the last question made me think tho, that was not a regular "invert a linked list" problem but more like a geometry/general math related problem, enjoyed solving it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked about biases in designing a recommendation system and ways to avoid them.
4 rounds interview with algorithm questions. On each section two problems. Leetcode easy and leetcode medium. Discuss solution, give assymptotic and after realize and fix bug. You can't run the code