Principal Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Yahoo with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 20% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Principal Software Engineer roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Yahoo overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Yahoo as a Principal Software Engineer according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 27%
One on one interview: 27%
Skills test: 20%
Personality test: 13%
Background check: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
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Waste of time. 4 hour work sample + 6 hours of interviews.
No discussion of the work sample or feedback on it at all.
Technical interviewers were not friendly or collaborative, spoke poor english.
I applied online. I interviewed at Yahoo in Jan 2025
Interview
I interviewed with a different department at Yahoo in the past, and this was equally frustrating. The interview itself was not particularly difficult, however communication from the recruiter was spotty. Shortly after the virtual onsite I received positive feedback from the team, but was told they needed more time for a decision. They then proceeded to ghost me.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Yahoo (Mountain View, CA) in Nov 2023
Interview
The recruiter or sometime the engineering manager contact you and schedule the interview.
The interviewers sometime have an interview and doesn't even their feedback is considered.
Yahoo hiring has so much politics. It's not the same company it was before pandemic.