I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Yelp in Oct 2016
Interview
The phone interview is through the Skype and it's a video chat, they first asked some questions about your projects on resume, why Yelp, and then asked a question when someone reports opening the webpage of Yelp takes too long, what may cause these situations and how can you deal with it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The coding challenge is to give you a list of the restaurants opening time, and you are asked to merge them if they have overlap, then write some test cases. It's basically the merge interval problem from the leetcode.
Leetcode style interview online via link, then a 1 on 1 technical interview with a lead developer also online where you can ask questions about the role and working at yelp, later more in depth technical tests and finally references and psicological tests.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Talk about the project you are the most proud of, why do you want to work at yelp
Very intense. 4 back to back 45 minute interviews. One behaviour and four technical interviews.
Nice people but got the vibe everyone was happy with the work as it wasn’t too challenging.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Yelp (Toronto, ON) in May 2025
Interview
Around 3 different rounds with a mix of behavioural and technical. Last round features on-site which lasts the whole day, where there are 2 dsa rounds, 1 system design round and 1 recruiter round to end the day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Walk us through one project you have done, and some of the challenges you encountered while working on this project