I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Yandex (Moskau, ) in Dec 2014
Interview
Online test on their website, email with invitation for interview, face to face interview (there were HR specialist and head of department by web). They asked me about my job expirience, my projects, what they can do in communication with there 20 000 drivers all over the country. I didn't have proper plan for the interview. After that one more writing test.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The process wasn't build and they asked me tell what would I do in my first week of work.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Yandex in Sep 2013
Interview
Process took place at 2014 fall.
First I wrote a test at yandex website.
Than I had a phone test full of technical questions with HR staff.
After that I had a video conference with a technical manager and finally I arrived to Moscow headquarters and had face-to-face interview.
There were 3 people in a room besides myself, all of them turned out to became my colleagues soon.
We had discussed my former background and current intensions.
There were some tricky questions for relevant technologies I have been involved.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was given some practical tasks to solve ad-hoc: like task or file distribution to numerous hosts(10,100,1000 ...) in a minimal time.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Yandex (Berlin) in Jul 2014
Interview
There was one phone screening via skype with life coding.
After that Yandex invited my to Berlin for onsite interview.
Interview took whole day, starting with 1:1 interview about programming language details.
Then online interview with group in Moscow ending with coding task on laptop.
When stuck interviewer are trying to push you to right direction.
Whole stuff was very friendly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
* C++ language details
* Algoritms and data structure design
* Memory/complexity optimization
* Math and brain teasers