Yahoo·Software Engineer

Yahoo Software Engineer interview experience

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IsraelPosted May 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

A big chunk of my experience revolved around home testing.

One time I was given an assessment on HackerRank that I had to complete over several hours, and I even scored perfectly on it. The company said they’d get back after the holidays, and I waited—only to have them go silent afterward. When I reached out again, I ultimately got ghosted, which was honestly the most frustrating part because the technical performance felt like it wasn’t enough to earn a response.

In a different version, the home test was set up as a week-long problem set. It had two questions with a ninety-minute time window for answering them, and they weren’t trivial. The

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