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      Software Engineer New Grad Interview

      Dec 11, 2017
      Anonymous employee
      Chicago, IL
      Accepted offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Groupon (Chicago, IL) in Oct 2017

      Interview

      Not the easiest interview process, but if you're able to get medium problems on LeetCode down, you'll be fine. (1) 30 minute interview with a recruiter. They really try to get to know you as people and even give you a texting phone number. It's really laid back. (2) 1 hour code assessment with a developer. Half of the time was them going through resume-applicable questions as well as testing you on some technology they use (CI process, etc.) They use CoderPad, and they have you implement an algorithm problem on there. They select a custom variation of something available on LeetCode. Basically, you need to implement it entirely, or else you fail (it can be inefficient). Walk through on how to make it more efficient (just verbalize and if you have time, do it). I didn't get to finish my efficient implementation, but I told him what I'd do and told him my thought process when it comes to complexity. The interview ended on questions about databases (a SQL-querying question). (3) 5 hour in-person interview: ---> Round 1: This was the bar-raiser. Basically, this guy can veto you out if he hates you. This is entirely on your resume, so they will drill you on that. The guy sees if you can think like the team, and he'll go through some projects and have you explain in-depth on what you did. ---> Round 2: This was a typical coding interview but with lunch. They have a laptop where you implement something on CoderPad, and you have a whiteboard behind you for you to explain something. Once I implemented it, he asked me how to optimize it for a specific use-case. I got stuck, so he gave me a hint, and I was able to nail it. Use the interviewer for help-- treat it more like a pair programming exercise and converse and bounce ideas off of him. Make sure to fully explain yourself, but be quick. ---> Round 3: This was another coding interview just like the last one. But there was a bit more background on my resume on this one. The problem was more like a hard puzzle. I didn't fully understand the problem, and I didn't clarify, yet I pushed onto implementation. Don't do this, since this was the main reason this guy didn't pass me. ---> Round 4: This was a System Designs question. Basically, how would you implement something like Mesos or Facebook messenger? I prepped up for this by using "Grokking the system design interview." But basically, show them your thought process and constantly run considerations and fixes by them. Think: implementation, scalability, bottlenecks, etc. Just be creative. Even if you think of some metric that might be useful to calculate load that's possible to come up with, run it by the interviewer. Just have a cool conversation. ---> Final Round: This was with the overall lead. He goes through your resume and really gets to know you behaviorally. He then gives you a fairly simple coding question. I did really well here. They, then, have a huddle where they discuss the interview and give you an offer or not. Basically, I had one interviewer that was unsure, and everyone else liked me, so I got offered the job. No background/drug test.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How would you design Mesos?
      Answer question
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      Software Engineer New Grad Interview

      Jan 29, 2020
      Anonymous employee
      Chicago, IL
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Groupon (Chicago, IL) in Jan 2020

      Interview

      Talk about my resume and also had to do two tech problems. They wanted to know how I used my technical knowledge in project s. I used my They also offer time for questions.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Find frequency of words in files.
      1 Answer

      Software Engineer New Grad Interview

      Sep 17, 2019
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Groupon in Sep 2019

      Interview

      The interviewer was the nicest interviewer I've ever met. I was unsure about Groupon going in but he makes it seem like a great place to work. I am truly impressed by the caliber of people that they have and I am very grateful to the interviewer for making one of my first interview experiences go so smoothly.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Binary Search Trees
      1 Answer

      Software Engineer New Grad Interview

      Oct 16, 2018
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Austin, TX
      Declined offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Groupon (Austin, TX) in Oct 2018

      Interview

      A recruiter reached out to me on Piazza and scheduled a phone interview. Then I had 2 rounds of final interviewer at GHC. Although the questions are mainly about the coding problems, I was asked about my previous internship experience in details. So definitely prepare to talk about things on your resume.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How did you do the testing in your internship project?
      Answer question

      Groupon interviews FAQs

      • Software Engineer New Grad applicants have rated the interview process at Groupon with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 80% positive. To compare, the company-average is 52.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Software Engineer New Grad roles take an average of 33 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Groupon overall takes an average of 18 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at Groupon as a Software Engineer New Grad according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  42%

        Presentation:  25%

        One on one interview:  25%

        Group panel interview:  8%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

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        3. Software Engineer(130) ;
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        10. Merchant Development Representative(45) ;
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        14. Senior Account Executive(38) ;
        15. Senior Software Engineer(35) .


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