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      Principal Engineer Interview

      Sep 18, 2017
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Bengaluru
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Groupon (Bengaluru)

      Interview

      I got the interview call via a consultant. It was the worst experience I had in the entire career. Primarily because I felt the HR is very unprofessional. It was a whole day process and they made me wait till 2.45 pm noon and did not bother to arrange lunch. That's the last thing you expect when you go to a company for the interview process. The First round was more on problem-solving and technology. Some questions where really surprising like "what is j2ee" !!! Then there were programming and problem solving questions. I felt that the interviewer was not open for discussion and was expecting some answers he had in mind. (I am perfectly fine with it.) The Second round: it seems the interviewer was not interested in meeting candidate. He rushed in and did not even bother to introduce himself. I solved the problem given to me but again I felt that interviewer had some answer in mind and he was expecting same. The second round got over in 35 mins and I was asked to wait till someone arranges lunch. I waited from 1.15 to 2.15 in the same meeting room and then after not seeing anyone around, I called HR. He told me he will be back in 2 min but again I had to wait till 2.40 pm. Finally he came to me when I called him again and told him that I am going out for lunch.!!! Third round: was the only quality round. The interviewer asked some good questions and was open to discussion. This is the only +ve experience I had in the entire process. Later I was told that they will get back to me with feedback since the panel has mixed feedback and they need to discuss with hiring manager who is busy right now. But they never got back.

      Interview questions [4]

      Question 1

      Find two numbers in an array such that the second number is greater than the first one and the diff is maximum. Mathematical proof that my solution works in all cases
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      How ussd works (since I had past experience on same)
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      Design a workflow system
      1 Answer

      Question 4

      Design makemytrip
      1 Answer

      Other Principal Engineer Interview Reviews for Groupon

      Principal Engineer Interview

      May 29, 2012
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Groupon in Apr 2012

      Interview

      Recruiter found me and connected me with the engineering department, the scheduling was quick. The interviewer was friendly, the interview question was behavioral as well as technical. The technical part was the shuffle function for a deck of cards, I answered with the normal randomized iteration of the array, at which point the interview ended, not sure whether the interviewer was expecting exactly the Fisher Yates algorithm.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Implement shuffle function for an array of cards.
      Answer question

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