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100

Yelp introduced the first non-US version of its website here in January 2009

What is the United Kingdom?

100

This security-themed prank involves sending a picture of an animal to a company mailing list when someone leaves their computer unlocked

What is Goating?

100

The number of teams there are in the Services Org

What is 9?

100

These are the categories that together form the PERF in PLAH-PERF

What are Pets, Event planning, Real estate, and Financial

100

A Programming Language named after a type of Indonesian Coffee

What is Java?

200

Where did Yelp first launch a non-english site?

What is France?

200

This treat became the unofficial symbol for accidental email blasts after a famous party invitation mishap

What is Ice cream?

200

This services org engineer has been at yelp the longest

Who is Tianyu?

200

This metric is often referred to as UTS.

What is Unable To Service?

200

The expanded form of the general term GPS

What is Global Positioning System?

300

This former PayPal employee, along with Jeremy Stoppelman founded Yelp at a business incubator, MRL Ventures, in 2004.

Who is Russell Simmons?

300

This animal is what the Yelp mascot “Burst” is based on

What is a Dog?

300

As of Nov 10, this person had the most contributions on Github amongst SDY and SCA

Who is Peng?

300

Though BOA can mean several things, this is what it means at Yelp.

What is a Business Owner Account?

300

After launching in 1997 on the Nokia 6110, this game quickly became a phenomenon

What is Snake?

400

This, along with the term “help”, is what inspired the name "Yelp"

What is Yellow Pages?

400

In classic incident fashion, this single character typo in a config file has taken down parts of Yelp infra before

What is a comma?

400

This feature had a development codename “Project FOMO”

What is Social Proof?

400

A type of business response that is usually shortened to NMI.

What is Needs More Information?

400

This is what the 'I' in IBM stands for

What is International (Business Machine)?

500

The reason behind the term DAR being chosen for outages

What is Chewing through an ethernet cable?

500

Controversy: This phenomenon of business owners and competitors writing fake reviews became more prevalent as the percentage of fake reviews rose from 6% in 2006 to 20% in 2014

What is Astroturfing?

500

A feature where users request a quote by describing their project in a simple textbox.

What is a Standard Composer?

500

On the consumer app, RaCB is a shortening for this term.

What is Request a Call Back?

500

According to an analysis by the UK's National Cyber Security Centre that investigated passwords belonging to hacked accounts worldwide, this is the most common six-letter password that doesn't require numbers or punctuation

What is QWERTY?

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