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Cafecito with Yelp Engineering: All About Yelp’s Resume Review and Coding Challenge

5 speakers
September 9, 2025 12:30 – 1:30 PM ET Virtual Free to attend
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Cafecito with Yelp Engineering: All About Yelp’s Resume Review and Coding Challenge

About this session

Join “Cafecito with Yelp Engineering” for first-hand insights from software engineers based in Mexico as they share their journeys applying to do work for Yelp. Hear how they navigated the technical application steps, tackled the coding challenge, and successfully transitioned into their roles. Plus, get practical resumes and application tips from the Yelp recruiting team. If you're a software engineer and you’re interested in working for Yelp, this interactive event is a great way to get prepared and confident for the process.

Through this event, you will:

  • Get an inside look at Yelp’s engineering culture and onboarding experience from software engineers based in Mexico who work for Yelp
  • Understand the initial steps of the technical interview process (from resume review to the coding challenge)
  • Participate in a hands-on resume workshop where Yelp recruiters provide feedback on real-life resumes
  • Ask questions, connect with engineers and recruiters, and expand your tech community

Event Agenda:

  • Learn More About Yelp as a Company
    • Talk: What is Yelp - “Que es Yelp” (Product Manager Fernando Fernandez)
    • Talk: What My Yelp Onboarding Experience was Like as a Software Engineer from Mexico (MEX Software Engineer Lucia Cantu-Miller)
  • Navigating the Yelp Technical Application & Interview Process and Real Life Practice (Technical Recruiting Manager Ellen Heirbaut & Senior Technical Sourcer Swati Arora)
    • Talk: The Yelp Technical Interview Process and Resume & Application Tips
    • Interactive Audience Activity: Applying Resume Tips to Real-life Resumes
  • Demystifying the Coding Challenge (MEX Software Engineer Julio César Barrera Olivera)
    • Talk: What the Coding Challenge Is and How to Approach It

Meet the speakers

Lucia Cantu-Miller

Lucia Cantu-Miller

MEX Software Engineer, Yelp

Lucía Cantú-Miller is a Software Developer for the Biz Multi Location Value team at Yelp. She first joined Yelp a little over a year ago. Before Yelp, Lucía was a Software Developer at a company that focused on digital transformation solutions. She has also been a Full-Stack Developer on a freelance basis for over 6 years. She is based in Monterrey, Mexico and she received her Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Tecnológico de Monterrey. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her family, friends, and her dog, going to concerts, sewing and building jigsaw puzzles.
Ellen Heirbaut

Ellen Heirbaut

Technical Recruiting Manager, Yelp

Ellen is a Technical Recruiting Manager at Yelp. Together with her team, she supports the hiring efforts for Yelp’s Engineering, Product and Business Technology roles in North America. Ellen was born and raised in Belgium, studied and started her career there before making the move to the United States. This August marks Ellen’s 10th year at Yelp during which she grew from a recruiter role to a manager role. If you let her, she can talk for hours about her family, her books, good food and good music. She lives near San Francisco, USA.
Swati Arora

Swati Arora

Senior Technical Sourcer, Yelp

Swati Arora is a Senior Technical Sourcer at Yelp. She has been a part of Yelp for four years and supports the hiring of diverse top talent for Engineering, Product, and Biz Tech roles across North America. She brings with her over 15 years of recruiting experience. Prior to joining Yelp, she took a career break to focus on her family. Swati holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and is currently based in Toronto, Canada. In her free time, she enjoys exploring new places and spending quality time with her family.
Julio César Barrera Olivera

Julio César Barrera Olivera

MEX Software Engineer, Yelp

Julio is a Software Engineer currently working on iOS and backend development for the Project Hiring Decision team at Yelp, which helps consumers progress step-by-step to a hiring decision. He was previously a middle and high school ICT teacher before transitioning to software development. Julio is from Mexico City and currently lives in Tijuana.
Fernando Fernandez

Fernando Fernandez

Product Manager, Yelp

Fernando is a Sr. Product Manager in the Growth team at Yelp. He joined Yelp nearly five years ago as part of the Business Operations and Strategy team. Since then, he transitioned into the Product org covering Growth, specifically Installs and also User Authentication. Prior to joining Yelp, he was in Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank working in the Consumer Retail Group. He was born and raised in Bronx, New York, where he currently resides. Fernando graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Economics as well as Bachelor of Arts. When he’s not creating new products for the Yelp app, Fernando loves to dance salsa and bachata as well as is starting to pick up running as a hobby!

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