Yelp·Backend Engineer

Yelp Backend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Toronto, ONPosted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a fairly standard Yelp loop with online assessment, recruiter and engineering conversations, but the process dragged and ended with ghosting.

HackerRank online assessment — I completed an online coding assessment.
Engineer chat / recruitment interview — I had a conversational interview to discuss my resume and experiences.
Virtual onsite loop — I then did a final block that included behavioral, systems design, and two coding interviews.
Process management — The recruiter communications were slow, and I never received an automated rejection after completing the whole set of rounds. Outcome: No offer, and my takeaway was that responsiveness and closure matter—being ghosted makes it hard to benchmark your

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