Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Yandex as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Sales Representative and rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Sales Representative and roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Yandex takes an average of 30 days when considering 1 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Sales Representative had the quickest hiring process (on average 30 days), whereas Sales Representative roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 30 days).
Boring
Unprofessional
Interview just asked very abstract questions,without any context and explanation. I passed case correct, but he wrote me after our call- you passed case but not so perfect …
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Yandex (Belgrade) in Feb 2025
Interview
3 rounds of general interviews (leetcode, ml theory, recsys related) and then one per product team.
Leetcode was not that hard, the last question made me think tho, that was not a regular "invert a linked list" problem but more like a geometry/general math related problem, enjoyed solving it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked about biases in designing a recommendation system and ways to avoid them.
4 rounds interview with algorithm questions. On each section two problems. Leetcode easy and leetcode medium. Discuss solution, give assymptotic and after realize and fix bug. You can't run the code