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Software Development Engineer In Test Interview Experience - Chicago, Illinois

December 4, 2012
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Contacted by HR on LinkedIn.

Phone conversation with HR.

Received a programming exercise to complete in a week. It was pretty simple.

Onsite interview with 5 developers/SDETs and HR.

The first two SDETs had been with the company for less than six months and seemed pretty clueless during the interview. They asked me how I would test a service they use at Groupon. Their questions were vague and pointless. They also asked about recursion and design patterns.

The second round was with the VP of Engineering. It was a great conversation about algorithms:

  • How would you select 100 random lines from a file with one million lines, given that you cannot read the entire file into memory?
  • Given an integer array containing numbers from 1 to 1000, where some numbers are missing, find those missing numbers.

Lunch interview with 2 SDETs. This was a casual conversation about the position and my past experience.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 5 interview experiences for the Groupon Software Development Engineer In Test role in Chicago, Illinois.

Success Rate

40%
Pass Rate

Groupon's interview process for their Software Development Engineer In Test roles in Chicago, Illinois is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive80%
Neutral20%
Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Groupon's Software Development Engineer In Test interview process in Chicago, Illinois.

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