I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Groupon in Mar 2014
Interview
first two phone interviews. then interview onsite
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They scheduled two phone interviews back to back. One person asked about how to design a hashtable. I was not prepared for this question. Then they tend to ask questions related to sampling. One person asked how to sample a number given a list of probabilities.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Groupon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2013
Interview
Applied online. Contacted by Manager. Received a coding question and a questionaire. Coding question was average. Received a call for scheduling phone interview. Phone interview was 3 one line question-answer( Given a program find its output.etc.) and then came the coding question, simple string manipulation question..nothing very difficult. I did well on the coding question. The interviewer seemed to be disinterested,very unfriendly and unhelpful; did not ask any questions while coding, showed his disinterest by not talking or just simply throwing an answer (for the sake of it) whenever I asked any question. Got a rejection email within 15 mins after the call..
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A question about Macros. Password security mechanism
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Groupon (Chennai) in Mar 2013
Interview
2 telephonic interviews followed by 2 f2f interviews. Most of them on DS and Algorithms. Not too easy not too difficult. Technical discussion took place in the 2nd f2f interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing was too difficult if you are comfortable with DS and Algos