Groupon Interview Questions

Application

The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Groupon (Palo Alto, CA (US)) in November 2011.

Interview

The interview process at Groupon was perhaps one of the most genuine processes I've experienced. As a recruiter, I interview for a living. The team at Groupon treated me as a potential future in-law to their family, not only a future co-worker. They took the time to get to know me. To ask thought provoking questions and to sell me. Most companies on the upward swing in the silicon valley are young, cocky and focused solely on what THEY want. Not also on why a candidate might want to join. I left there feeling that the staff was not only genuine and kind but very motivated and intellectual.

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Negotiation

Genuine. The conversation was no nonsense. "What are you making?" "What would it take to get you to sign today?"

Easy.

Application

I applied online. The process took a week. I interviewed at Groupon (Tucson, AZ (US)) in May 2011.

Interview

Applied online, got a call the next day and scheduled a phone interview for the following day. It was a casual thirty minute conversation where they went over my resume and work experience. The recruiter liked me and asked if I wanted to schedule a phone interview with one of the managers the following day. I did another phone interview the following day which resulted in a request for me to fly to their headquarters for a one on one.

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Application

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Groupon (Chicago, IL (US)) in June 2012.

Interview

Contacted by a recruiter on LinkedIn about a potential opportunity in my area, invited me to set up a phone chat to discuss the opportunity to see if i would be a good fit. The interview was very casual and easy, we scheduled the second phone interview with another recruiter for two days later.
Second one went well and was also pretty casual with a few more interview type questions.
Next step is Skype with regional manager.

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Application

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Groupon in May 2012.

Interview

Interviews are done via skype if you live outside of Chicago.

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Negotiation

Wasn't much. Based salary on experience in field.

Application

I applied online. The process took a week. I interviewed at Groupon (Chicago, IL (US)) in January 2012.

Interview

had a phone interview with HR..went over the resume. Then end of the same week had a technical interview with the developer working there...the technical interview was just going through the resume, he was not prepared....he was happy with me, but not sure got a reject next day..the technical guy was just employed there for 4 months..he said he is the one going to build the communication engineering department.

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Application

I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Groupon (Chicago, IL (US)) in February 2015.

Interview

Screened by two recruiters. The interview itself consisted of talking briefly with the two recruiters, followed by meeting with 5 people in the department. I met the hiring manager's boss first, then the hiring manager's partner, then the hiring manager, then some senior person in finance, and finally an analyst in the department who administered a SQL test.

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Application

I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Groupon.

Interview

Applied through info session on campus. Got contacted after half a week. Had two 45-min back-to-back sessions campus interview. One with a senior engineer discussing my experience listed on resume and solving 2-3 problems w/ pseudocode. The other was with two engineers solving two whiteboard coding problems.

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Application

I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Groupon.

Interview

5-10 mins about my previous work exp. One classic DP and one classic Linked List problem. Totally 45 minutes. They were very friendly people, they guided me throughout the answer. If you are prepared for tech interviews, you can crack it. Wasn't very tough.

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Application

I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Groupon (New York, NY (US)) in October 2016.

Interview

I was given a link by the recruiter to apply and was asked to answer to two question as application. I have to use my phone to type out the answer.

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Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Groupon (Champaign, IL (US)) in November 2015.

Interview

Groupon had a two round interview process. The first round was two back-to-back 45 minute on campus interviews. One was a design question and one was an algorithms question. They were pretty enjoyable. One of my interviewers had actually read my resume indepth, and checked out my github and asked me some pretty interesting questions about projects and some things I could have considered. The second round was three hour-long back-to-back Skype interviews. These were definitely more challenging, but otherwise decent. As a freshman, I didn't know enough to answer some of the conceptual questions, and struggled to implement some structures I was unfamiliar with, but overall the difficulty was alright. The algorithms questions were certainly very solvable.

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