I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Yandex (Moscovo, ) in Nov 2018
Interview
Experience with yandex.taxi. Interviews with hr and line manager were ok, but final interview with head of department, line manager and hr was really surprising and alerting. Head came to the room and immediately said that he didn’t read my CV, of course, so he was wondering whether I came alone or with some useful job skills O_o ok, maybe it was stress interview, I though. I told about my experience, while he was messaging and looking in his phone. Then he asked me to draw working process on the desk, still not looking up me. He had answered call without any sorries and talked with his friend for several minutes when I was telling my story.
Then he asked me how would I develop their new product. I asked some questions about product. He depreciatingly said to the line (hiring) manager who was his direct something like “hey you, tell her about product” (still not stopping messaging:) At that moment I realized it was not stress interview, it was common style of communication in Yandex.Taxi.
I have never seen top manager with such lack of respect to the team and other people. He asked nothing besides typical questions during the interview and seemed not interested in finding professional person for his team.
I would recommend to the applicants to be very attentive to the culture fit with Yandex.taxi and head of department, because I suspect lack of respectful healthy environment in this company. Maybe it’s one of the reasons of very high yandex.taxi turnover?
After 3-4 weeks hr called me and said that I was not good with the case(about product), so they were not ready to make an offer. I’m happy I was good enough in solving business cases for Big3, which offer I got the same time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about you experience
Why you
How would you develop our new product
I applied in-person. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Yandex (Moscovo, ) in Apr 2017
Interview
There were 4 parts of the interview and one home task. Interviewers were rather friendly and asked good questions. Interviewers were rather friendly and asked good questions.
The parts were: work in team, logic, quantitative data and interview with senior manager.
In the part "Logic" they asked to solve 2 or 3 tasks like in school. Others questions were more interesting and all about IT, internet, UX, marketing and project/product management.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
1. Walk me through your experience? Products and your roles.
2. You are in charge "Traffic" service. You saw that the indicator of the current functionality on the web service maps.yandex.ru decreased from 50% to 28%. Why could this happen? What are you going to do?
3. There are 3 hospitals in your city. The first hospital serves 2 districts, the second hospital - 5 districts, the third hospital - 3 districts. For the last month, the first hospital was not completed in time for 2 calls, for the second 11 calls, for the third 1 call.
You receive one new ambulance. Which hospital will you give it to? What KPI's will you look at?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Yandex (Moscovo, ) in May 2016
Interview
The whole process took 60+days. I was interviewed for yandex search department. Recruiter found me on LinkedIn. The whole process consisted of 4 interviews. First on-skype with product head(1,5 hours) - I was asked about my previous experience and different product cases I have solved with metrics description. Second part was at yandex office with 4 employees: 2 product heads, 1 analyst, 1 software architect. This part took over 5 hours, I was asked common question about project management, statistics and metrics(analyst), architecture of high-load services (software architect) and product questions(product head). After I passed it successfully - I was invited to third part with project manager and product head, I was asked questions about main product scenarios and product design of yandex serp for one scenario. I didn't covered all questions and scenarios, so I was declined for this search dept and they invited me for fourth interview with another search dept, there I was asked general project and product management questions and passed it well( according to final feedback). But got no offer, I suppose it's because of not so successful third part.