Yahoo·Software Engineer

Yahoo Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Positive

Dublin, DublinPosted Oct 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first real technical moment was unusual: I joined a call with a lot of other people—around twenty—and we were each given an hour to solve a problem.

Everyone had a different prompt, and I could use any language, so it felt like a live, synchronized coding test rather than a one-on-one interview.

In another run that also stayed fairly technical and direct, the interview consisted of just two questions. The first one involved lists—finding numbers in a given range—and the second was a matrix 2D problem that felt harder. It was still framed as a coding interview you could complete in a single session, with the difficulty coming from the prompts themselves rather than complicated logistics.

I didn’t receive an offer from these paths. Still,

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