Yahoo interview notes, page 1 of 2

“This was a lot.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Yahoo, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I fumbled the opening a bit because I went straight into ad formats without first establishing why mobile was even a problem for monetization specifically.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Yahoo, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I picked Yahoo Finance because I actually use it.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Yahoo, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is a lot of question crammed into one prompt and I didn't pace myself well.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Yahoo, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew this type of question was coming and still fumbled the delivery a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Yahoo, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew this was a DP problem pretty quickly but fumbled the base cases at first.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Yahoo, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I stared at the examples for longer than I should have before I realized this is just an Eulerian path problem on a 26-node directed graph where each word is an edge from its first letter to its last.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Yahoo, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Gave the usual rundown of encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, abstraction.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Yahoo, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is a classic product strategy question that sounds straightforward until you actually try to structure an answer under pressure.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Yahoo, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The part that tripped me up was the trade-offs section.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Yahoo, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.