Yahoo Software Engineer interview experience

In one process, the hiring manager phone screen started a few minutes late, but at first it seemed workable: they talked about the team, I shared my background, and then they dropped into a coding question. I clarified what they wanted, walked through an approach using a set to track values, then coded an O(n) solution and validated it with tests.

Near the end, they abruptly pivoted to a sorting-based solution even though I’d already given what I felt was the most efficient route. That shift came so late I couldn’t really recover with a fresh solution, and when I wrapped I was pretty