Groupon Sr. Product Manager interview questions

Phone interview as a pre-screen with a member of the team, good dialogue. Despite letting them know I was booked for 2+ weeks, coordinator responded back with dates where I was unavailable and we had to reschedule 2 weeks out. In person, personalities were frigid and unfriendly (you're NOT a leukemia research center, maybe your organization could benefit if you had a little fun or a personality). Management lacked communication/social skills and focus. Misalignment of the organization to target audience and market segment that company wants to focus on. When I asked management about the strategy they didn't have one. There was a clear issue with gender diversity; all interviewers on the list were male. My second interviewer acted dicey towards the end of our conversation and I suppose the hiring manager pinged him. Of course, they sent the scheduling coordinator to break the news....they made sure to pay me a compliment before telling me I wasn't a good fit, but frankly I was ecstatic to leave as the feeling was mutual. They blocked 5 hrs of time for interviews including a lunch hour but ended abruptly at noon without offering to at least buy lunch for wasting my day. It's normal to have adjustments to interview schedules before the interview gets started or substitutes due to conflicts but this was completely unprofessional and inconsiderate to a candidate's time. Best advice for anyone interviewing here in the product management group here is that you'll need to be fine with wasting your time, rude/dicey behavior, poor communication, and gender bias.

It all started with delaying the interview three times, despite communicating that I had other offers and the process started with several other companies. They reached out and the back and forth with Recruiters was very slow and painful. I offered times that I was available and eventually just said I would make any time work for them because they were too busy to flex into my schedule. After I finally had a phone conversation with the recruiter it started to move and I had a call set up at their availability. That's fine, but it didn't scream, "we want you!". The phone call started off late, which is usually understandable with meetings that run late and so forth but the interviewer said "I just lost track of time, sorry!" which isn't a good excuse. I was then asked to explain what I knew about the position, standard time-killer, based on what I read from the job req. and after that a few mundane questions about why I wanted to leave my current company (which frankly is a time-killer as well, most adept folks know that this is to weed out someone who wants to leave because they hate working 40 hours a week). I very quickly knew this was not going to be somewhere I wanted to work, but I kept at it just to make sure I wasn't judging too quickly. That's when we talked about the hiring manager, their style, and lots of "f bombs"...not professional or respectful. Totally fine with a relaxed culture, but this went beyond the "we're a fun place to work" vibe. The "product question" was simply asking me what I would change about the website, which was easy since I had prepared by visiting all of the pages and taking notes on product improvements. Awesome. However, the interviewer kept saying that I wouldn't know anything, and I have to launch the product blindly, despite me asking lots of clarifying questions to get a better feel for what we need to deliver and why. The back and forth was clearly intentional, but the answers to my questions were neither helpful or correct, which sealed the deal. I wasn't under the impression that Groupon is doing well in their innovations, and from a product standpoint things clearly are not well-defined or have much guidance.