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).
Usually 3 or 4 steps.
The first one is a tech interview with base IT questions, some of them are really useless, something from university or high school, something long forgotten.
The next two are tech interviews with a really hard algorithmic tasks. If you really want to pass it U have to spend a lot of time solving tasks on Leetcode.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Yandex (Moscovo, )
Interview
Three coding sections with two problems in each one. These are mostly easy and medium problems from leetcode. Also there is a first screening process with HR, a phone call with simple questions.
1) HR interview
2) Interview with manager + director
3) 2 directors
4) Head of Corp Dev department
Fit with the team is a must to succeed
Not that tough in terms of questions