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).
I applied online. I interviewed at Yandex in Nov 2021
Interview
The recruiting team sent out a self-recording video interview that had about 10 questions, some on teaching methodology and the rest on soft skills. Some real-life situations were given to assess problem-solving skills.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What’s the difference between a false beginner and a true beginner? What do you do when the student switches to L1?
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Yandex (Moscovo, ) in Jun 2022
Interview
Send an application, contact with a HR, write a review on a paper, then 3 interviews (math, deep learning and general ML knowledge). The whole process took 2 months. Overall standard process
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
math: constrained optimization, conditional expectation deep learning: pytorch, floating point arithmetics, transformers ML: boosting, gradients
4 tech interview - Simple algorithms tasks. Two tasks - Coding (also algorithms). Two tasks - Algorithms tasks. Two or more tasks - System design interview - Teams meeting, may be multiple teams