How I Got into Yandex and What I Learned
summary
A front‑end developer describes how she entered Yandex after a free questionnaire‑based front‑end course with weekly lectures and homework, reached the top ten for further evaluation and finally passed the interview on her fourth attempt. The interview process included a 1.5h Skype call and four in‑person coding sections (about 4h total) with live tasks: HTML/CSS markup, paper/board JavaScript problems, short coding tasks and algorithm/data‑structure questions. Practical advice covers using linters, reading specs and framework source, keeping a repo of best solutions and writing personal utilities; probation work included redesigning the БМИНФО site, internal Yandex projects and a documentation translation app called Katarija.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:44Yandex courses and first steps
- 11:31Yandex interview process
- 16:33Tips for new developers
- 21:53Working at Yandex and motivation
- 22:38Q&A
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