I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Yuzu in Apr 2014
Interview
Four Rounds of Technical interviews and one with the HR. The first round was the screening Interview with the Hiring Manager and lasted about an hour. It was mix of technical, problem solving and questions based on my projects. The Manager was very nice in describing the role, his current team and answering my questions. The HR was very nice in responding to all my emails quickly and was were open the whole interview process. 2 weeks after I heard from the HR about the next round of interviews. She scheduled 4 back to back 30 min inteviews. one of them was with the HR and other three were technical interviews.
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Yuzu (Mountain View, CA)
Interview
Interview process is pretty straight forward. Recruiter was very prompt in responding and very accommodative with my schedule. First step - initial phone screen and once cleared you would be called in for in person interview.
The people I interviewed with were really nice and friendly. The interview went well, was asked about several basic algorithm stuff (Whiteboard). We also talked about my past experience, why I'm interested in the role, and any questions that I had. Had two offers, but ended up accepting Yuzu for the work they do!
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Yuzu (Palo Alto, CA)
Interview
Be prepared for an inconsistent set of questions, and to be attacked about your background. Had I known what kind of interviewing the hiring manager style was, I never would have taken the call.
For one, Yuzu has hacked their current product into existence and while they claim they are looking to correct that, don't expect that will be the case. They had fired several high level people, so the place is political and can be a blood bath. Look at the reviews of their apps, should explain the level of engineering that takes place. They claim to give you more money, because you will not get stock. The place is actually run by people back east, so you are dealing with non-tech, east coast people.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The guy asked me to tell him how to write atoi in objective-C (think NSString), which is one line, then it seemed got atoi mixed up with iota. then claimed he was asking how the Objective-c was doing it. Crazy. oh yea, since Swift has been out for only a couple of months, could not figure out how anyone could have experience with it.... as if no developer would start writing code to test out the language and / or see about adding .swift classes / functions into their objective-c apps.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Yuzu in Oct 2014
Interview
Their recruiters are friendly and professional, but their technical team members were arrogant, condescending and unprofessional. The guy who interviewed me on the phone asked me general questions about software development and then completely tuned out while I spoke (I could hear him chewing food and talking to someone else on the other side of the line). There wasn't any feedback or acknowledgement of what I talked about. This is all after rescheduling the call at the last second and not returning emails, I honestly have no clue why I pursued it for so long. To anyone reading, I would think twice before doing so too.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you optimize software? How would you scale an API?
