I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp (Palo Alto, CA) in Feb 2013
Interview
Meet Yelp guys at the University job fair. They're really nice. I got a first round phone interview two weeks later. Since I was a new CSer, I only knew some fundamentals of data structure and algorithm. For the language, I was OK with C++. But their questions were so wide, varing from basic data structure problems, to python and SQL syntax, and also some networking knowledge. So I didn't do well. But in fact the interview was quite easy and basic, as I look back now. The only difficulty is the wide coverage. So the interviewee had better prepare a wide range of knowledge for Yelp.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Not very difficult, but the wide coverage requires interviewee a sound foundation of computer science.
I interviewed at Yelp (London, England) in Jan 2020
Interview
First interview purely logistical and HR related, followed by 1 technical interview with a leetcode easy question, then a week later 1 Behavioral Interview followed by technical interview with leetcode medium question back to back. Interviewees were very friendly, encouraging and helpful
Applied through their website. Received an email asking for a quick chat. Arranged within the week. Some chit-chat and then some rapid-fire technical questions. By the end of the conversation i was informed that i passed the round and we should arranged a skype interview with an engineer. Received an email a few days later that the intern positions were full.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- port and protocol of HTTP
- what ssl stands for and used for
- how many bits to represent an octad digit
- max int with unsigned 32bit
- what structure for binary search: linked list or sorted array?
- insertion time in a linked list
Got the phone screen pretty quickly and was called by a recruiter for a pretty short conversation. The recruiter was really flexible about my schedule and a nice guy. Started the conversation with a few questions about what I would be interested in doing at the company, what my favorite languages to code in are. Then he asked some rapid-fire knowledge-based questions. They're on here for the most part--can't remember any that arent. He let me know at the end of the screen that I qualified for the interview with an engineer which we set up on the spot
