I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Yahoo (Sunnyvale, CA) in Oct 2009
Interview
Both were phone interviews they didnot call for onsite after second round. Both interviews lasted 45 mins
First interview was straight forward screening interview . Interviewer just wanted to check if I knew basic tools and basic concepts about debugging. simple questions about what is ACL , If you have a network problem how will you go about debugging it.
Second interview was a bad experience. First of all the interviewer called 45 minutes late saying he forget he had to call me. Then for 10 mins he was wondering what to ask me. Then he picked up a web project I had worked on and started asking silly and random debuggng questions. The questions were so general I really didnot know what he was looking for whether he was looking for any specific tools or names ? The questions didnot seem to test my skills to much extent. The whole interview had a subjective feel to it and I cannot say they rejected me as I gave wrong answers in second interview rather he didnot like my answers.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
If you have a network problem how will you try to debug it step by step
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Yahoo (Bengaluru) in Jan 2015
Interview
Telephonic screening followed by multiple F2F rounds . After telephonic interview, there will be multiple face to face rounds in the company. Final round is HR and a discussion with hiring manager.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Telephonic screening followed by multiple F2F rounds . After telephonic interview, there will be multiple face to face rounds in the company.
Pretty standard ones, Linux internals, Networking, Security and scripting
I applied in-person. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Yahoo (Sunnyvale, CA) in Aug 2014
Interview
I was advised it was going to be a 2 months process.
I had already contract for Yahoo so I went directly to the 5-hour interview with five interviewers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Interview was very technical, ranging from easy questions such as how to get the return code for a command ($?), how to find out swapping usage, how to troubleshoot an slow web site( cluster of 400 hosts) to how to troubleshoot one specific ads not showing on the web site. Questions about scripting, such as how parallelize a curl to different hosts. How to implement monitoring (either passive or active and why). Explain SSL handshake. Implement manually a log rotation. Troubleshoot machine rebooting very often. Unix internals: concept of stack,heap. Describe in detail your biggest accomplishments.
