Groupon Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – Very casual talk. The interviewer are managers who don't have a lot of experiences of interviewing people, so they didn't really ask regular questions. This makes it a bit difficult since you have to think about how to make a connections of the things you say.

Interview Details – Applied for the position online, received an e-mail from the recruiter about a month later. Interviews with two executives in the business unit were fair, good discussion and interesting insights.

Kudos to the recruiter working in this position staying on top of all communications, scheduling, doing it all in a pleasant manner and over the phone, quickly and pleasantly and responding to e-mails quickly. She even called to deliver the news that they decided on another candidate over the phone. Not the outcome I wanted, but they certainly seem to have a culture of getting things done and professional behavior.

Interview Details – Applied via their website, and was contacted shortly after for a phone screen. The phone screen was about an hour of basic questions, and was brought for an in-person interview after which consisted of 5 or 6 1-hour sessions.

Overall, the interview process was a negative compared to most companies I've interviewed at. My first interviewer spent more time texting than paying attention to anything I was saying. I'd understand that if it was already decided that I was a no-go (though still pretty rude) but given that was the first interview I can't imagine that was the case. There was also an employee shadowing during an interview that asked a lot of questions that implied he didn't understand the question the other employee was asking me before coming in to shadow. We spent a lot of time explaining the problem to him that there wasn't time to complete the solution to the problem.

Also, watch out if groupon flies you in to interview. It's been over 2 months, I've followed up several times, and they keep saying that their reimbursement process is having "technical issues." Given the negatives I've heard from merchants about groupon being slow to pay them, I don't think I'm actually going to get reimbursed for the travel expenses.

Interview Details – They first reached out to me via Linked In. At first I wasn't super excited about the opportunity, I was also in talk with Foursquare, Gilt and Box. Following a few phone interviews they definitely got me excited.

30 minute phone Interview:
       One of the designers called me. He told me about the opportunity and asked me about me. I gave him a brief overview of my experience and than focused about some of my experience with a single project.

Right after the recruiter set up a second interview. The second interview was just with another designer and it was pretty much the same as the first one, talked about my experience and really try to focus on specific examples.

After the two interviews I just went back and forth with the recruiter and they booked a flight and hotel for me to do an onsite interview in Chicago. (I lived in New York)

I arrived to Chicago the night before the interview and was really impressed with the Hotel. The next day went something along these lines.

8am - tour of building (super nice)
9am - 10am - I gave a keynote to about 20 designers (half of the were conferencing in from California) No one asked any questions right away, this presentation was mostly for me to talk about my experience and give an in-depth look at a few projects and provide context around some of my design decisions and product experience.
10am -6pm - A string of one on one interviews with individual designers and managers. Most of them asked specific questions pertaining to my past experiences, otherwise I just kept rabbling on about my self, my past projects and really just my passion for building cool products.

In one of the individual meetings I did do a white board exercise with a designer. The designer was super nice and he didn't make it me nervous at all, he explained that he basically just wants to collaborate with him to wireframe out a movie app layout. We worked through the different elements that should be visible and the ones that shouldn't be and of course why.

The whole interview was hela long....but everyone was super nice..especially the recruiters they were super accommodating and were always there to guide me from room to room and get me anything I needed.

That same day, I rushed back to the airport and flew back to New York.

The recruiters were very open and told me the exact day when the designers were planning to meet to review me and the exact date when they would contact me. This was definitely a nice relief.

As promised I was contacted by a manager which asked me a few more detailed questions regarding to relocation and position responsibilities, later that day the recruiter contacted me with an offer that I couldn't refuse. Seriously their offer was much better than other offers. While interviewing with Groupon, I was also interviewing with Foursquare, BOX and Gilt which made me an offer.

I accepted the offer that night and moved from NY to Palo Alto in the next three weeks. They were super helpful in helping me find a place, providing me with a relocation bonus and the recruiter even tried to find my girlfriend a job. Overall great experience for moving cross country.

Negotiation Details – As promised I was contacted by a manager which asked me a few more detailed questions regarding to relocation and position responsibilities, later that day the recruiter contacted me with an offer that I couldn't refuse. Seriously their offer was much better than other offers. While interviewing with Groupon, I was also interviewing with Foursquare, BOX and Gilt which made me an offer.

I accepted the offer that night and moved from NY to Palo Alto in the next three weeks. They were super helpful in helping me find a place, providing me with a relocation bonus and the recruiter even tried to find my girlfriend a job. Overall great experience for moving cross country.

Interview Details – Hr contacted me for the available dates and times. schedule an interview but never ever received a phone call from the person who was supposed to interview me for the position

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.

Negotiation Details – They do not pay people based on experience, they pay all their sales people the same base salary.

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!

Interview Details – Combination of phone interviews and face to face interviews. Inner company interviews are different from outside interviews and are less formal.

Negotiation Details – Negotiation depends entirely on the interviewee

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.

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.