Yahoo·Software Engineer

Yahoo Software Engineer interview experience

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Dublin, DublinPosted Nov 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My early screens for Yahoo were pretty practical and tightly scheduled.

I started with a short call focused on internship suitability—things like timing and modules—and then the real technical work began with a monitored coding challenge. I was given a link to an online editor where I worked through the problem while interviewers could follow how I moved step by step. The allowed languages included Java, Python, and C++.

After the coding challenge, I had an onsite follow-up where I started by talking through my approach, then got hit with a mix of technical questions and behavioral prompts. In some variants of the process, the interviewer situation wasn’t

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