Yahoo·Software Engineer

Yahoo Software Engineer interview experience

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Mountain View, CAPosted Aug 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview started with a technical question about arrays, and then they followed it up with a challenge that built directly on what I answered first.

That second step was where the difficulty really landed, because it required me to extend my reasoning rather than just give a one-off solution.

I also had a behavioral portion led by the hiring manager. That section felt more like assessing how I think and communicate about situations, while the technical part was more about adapting under pressure.

I didn’t make it through. The experience overall was difficult mainly because the technical evaluation was staged—if I didn’t get one part right, it made the follow-up much harder to handle.

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