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Account Executive at Groupon
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Chicago, IL – Reviewed May 12, 2013 New
Interview Details – Pretty much a joke. If you can talk to a recruiter who knows nothing about what you do and can talk for 15 minutes without being a freak they will hire you. Then they will tell you everything you need to say to be hired.
Interview Question – How do you sell Groupon? Answer Question
Negotiation Details – They do not pay people based on experience, they pay all their sales people the same base salary.
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Breadcrumb POS at Groupon
No Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY May 2013 – Reviewed May 11, 2013 New
Interview Details – I was shocked at the salary-40k...It is obvious that this division is lead and recruited by a bunch of kids...I am not impressed withe them at all...Look at shopkeep!
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Inventory Analyst at Groupon
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Sep 2012 – Reviewed May 10, 2013
Interview Details – Combination of phone interviews and face to face interviews. Inner company interviews are different from outside interviews and are less formal.
Interview Question – Tell me a time when you didn't get along with your direct supervisor and how you handled the situation. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Negotiation depends entirely on the interviewee
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Account Executive at Groupon
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Chicago, IL Mar 2010 – Reviewed May 9, 2013
Interview Details – Hiring was a very long process- 4 interviews with 1) the recruiter 2) The sales manager 3) another sales manager and 4) A senior account executive. Keep in mind that this was back in 2010 when there was only 150 or so other sales people on the team, so i'm sure they do things differently now. I was hired the next week after my interview and really enjoyed it. I thought they asked very tough questions and my pitch was also very hard.
Interview Question – I think role playing is always awkward and a bit difficult, so going through 3 of these with each person was challenging. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – It was pretty quick and to the point because in a commission based position, you pretty much are lucky to get a base and then go from there.
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Engineering Project Manager at Groupon
No Offer – Reviewed Apr 30, 2013
Interview Details – I got an email from groupon recruiter that Groupon is interested in talking to me. I gave the times for the upcoming week. Nothing happens until the last two days and then I get a mail in the afternoon for phone screen the next morning. the interviewer asked me one ques and then informed me that I did not have enough experience in agile mngt and someone in hr will get back to me.
Interview Question – Tell me how you would manage a bad situation with a peer or a group Answer Question
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Software Development Engineer at Groupon
No Offer – Interviewed in Apr 2013 – Reviewed Apr 15, 2013
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Submitted my resume online on their careers website.Got a call from recruiter within 2 days and was asked to schedule a technical phone interview.
It was a typical technical interview , with questions on my resume , projects and few algorithmic and data structure questions. Was asked to the code problems in the language of my choice using some online editor tool. I am a non native english speaker , so was the interviewer . I didn't understand her properly and had to ask her to repeat the questions like zillion times .It was truly arduous for both of us. Apart from that everything went good. She was very nice and even gave hints when I was struck.I am waiting on the result of the interview .
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1) How do you serialize and deserialize a list of strings. Come up with an efficient algorithm and code the solution in the language of your choice.
2) Differenece between a string , StringBuilder and StringBuffer
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Business Analyst at Groupon
Declined Offer – Reviewed Apr 19, 2013
Interview Details – Contacted by recruiter followed by phone interview with manager and then quick turnaround to onsite interview. Interviewed onsite by 5 people. They were typical fit interviews with several case questions sprinkled in. The team is friendly and seem genuinely excited about their work, although the one red flag I got was that there appears to be a lack of business process standardization resulting in frequent fire-drills and/or longer hours. Offer was made within a week, but declined due to better fit and benefits from other companies. Overall, a very positive interview process.
Interview Question – Why makes you willing to leave your current company? Answer Question
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Software Engineer at Groupon
Declined Offer – Reviewed Apr 17, 2013
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Looks non-professional overall.
Initial communication on phone. HR asked me algorithm questions on phone - weird to me because he was matching my answers to what he had (obviously no clue left and right).
Initial interactions were confusing too, two recruiters were contacting me different answers.
First two interviewers were pretty good. But the third one was really weird - he looked to be having no clue about algorithms and was asking algo question.
Interview Question – Maximum sub-array given an integer array. It wasn't that the question was so difficult, the interviewer asked in a way that appeared very rude to me. He was not interacting at all even after i ask questions worrying that his answer might not lead me to the solution. Answer Question
Reason for Declining – Looks non-professional overall.
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Account Executive at Groupon
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Apr 16, 2013
Interview Details – the interview process was nearly 6 weeks long and very repetitive. be ready for a role play at the end but nothing too unusual about the process - just lengthy
Negotiation Details – accepted 1st offer
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Inbound Relationship Manager at Groupon
No Offer – Interviewed in Apr 2013 – Reviewed Apr 9, 2013
Interview Details – first 15 minute phone call- want to know background and why you want to work there.
Interview Question – nothing hard, 'walk me through your college career' Answer Question
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