I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Yelp (San Francisco, CA) in Sept 2017
Interview
One brief hackrrank question, question was pretty easy followed by a Phone interview with a technical question at the end.
The onsite was 4 interviews with a total of 5 technical questions. First four ranging from medium to hard leetcode-type questions. I've also had around 3 design questions, each from a different domain: I've had a question on website design, feature selection (ML), and database optimization. Each question was extremely interesting to think about and the interviewer was an amazing soundboard. Although I felt pretty good after the interviews, I received a rejection a few days after the on-site. I feel that I've answered the coding questions well so I wonder what sort of candidate they were looking for. The Yelp HQ visit was an amazing experience and the engineers were really nice, regardless of the outcome.
I applied online. I interviewed at Yelp (London, England) in Mar 2021
Interview
Hackerrank challenge followed by a call with a recruiter. Then, an techinical phone screen of average difficulty followed by and onsite of total of 4 interviews which cover both technical interviews (think DS, algo + system design) and behavioural interviews. Everyone is very friendly, company heavily focuses on maintaining good WLB for employees and developing interesting product features.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Yelp (San Francisco, CA) in Sept 2019
Interview
After applying, I was sent a HackerRank challenge and given a video interview with an engineer.
They flew me onsite for 4 back to back interviews (2 behavioral interviews, 1 technical, 1 system design).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Similar question to https://leetcode.com/problems/top-k-frequent-words/
I applied online. I interviewed at Yelp in Aug 2019
Interview
First I was given a fairly simple hacker rank question to be completed in 20 minutes. Then the next step was to complete a 45 minute video interview over coderpad. The first time the call was scheduled, they sent me a faulty coderpad link, so I had to reschedule it. The second time the call was scheduled, my interviewer didn't show up. Overall I don't know what it is, but terrible interview experience that just wasted my time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The hacker rank was a pretty easy string/json parsing question.