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).
5 interviews in total, cut it short on the third phase (technical test) where the test was incomplete, Russian data Vs english and requires technical coding or extensive manual data entry which is non compatible with the position applied for.
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Question 1
Basic questions: introduce yourself, why do you wanna join Yandex, etc.
Several interviews (3-5), most of them are only about algorithms. Sometimes, if there is enough time left, they can ask you about the language specifics or something related to concurrency
Applied online. I was contacted by an HR a few months before my graduation. Had a call with a hiring manager. Asked about some basic data structure and algorithms. Several questions about machine learning algorithms and ML system design.