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      Software Engineering Interview

      30 Apr 2015
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Yelp in Apr 2015

      Interview

      I applied online, the recruiter contacted me after 3 months for a different rule (I applied for a summer intern and she contacted me for a fall intern). we arranged for a phone call and she asked me a lot of behavioral questions.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Just study those for the recruiter interview :) With love <3 Behavioral: - Why Yelp? (obvious one) - Why would we hire you? - If you could do anything at Yelp, what would you do? - Yelp throws a Hackathon 3 or 4 times a year (gives additional details about the contest), what would you submit? - What is the most difficult project that you've worked on? - What is your ideal work environment? - What's your favorite programming language? Why? - What are some disadvantages of that language? Technical: - What does SSL stand for, explain what it does? - Maximum value of unsigned integer? - Number of bits in an octal? - How to retrieve a row from a table in SQL - SQL command to move a row in a table? - protocol used to transfer message in HTTP application - port number for HTTP - performance of binary tree if implemented thru array or linkedlist? - which one of the following describe inner join? 1. A intersection B, 2. A Union B and ... - Which signal does linux uses to kill a process - What's the difference between TCP and UDP? - Explain in detail the steps/processes that occur from the moment you type a URL in a browser and hit enter. - Time complexity of adding things to Linked List - What does HTML stand for? - What is SSH? - how many bytes are in an integer? - How many bits of an integer? - What is the command for viewing memory management information in Linux? - What is the best and worst case time complexities for a hash table? - How many bytes does a 32 bit operating system work with? - What is the time complexity of searching in a linked list - What is DNS? - What is SQL? - some command in linuz(grep, kill) - TCP? - Time complexity of binary search - How would you find a method in a file - How would you find whether a remote computer is online or not - How does the domain name map to ip address - How many bits in a short? - How to delete in the SQL table - What's a HTTP GET/POST/PUT? - How cookies are working? - HTTPS?
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