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Software Engineer Interview Experience

October 3, 2014
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I spoke with them at a campus recruiting event. They scheduled a screening interview one week later, followed by an on-site interview about three weeks after that.

The process was pretty smooth. The recruiters were very busy but pleasant and replied to questions quickly.

On-site, a couple of the interviewers gave coding questions that were not too difficult (similar to processing strings), but I did encounter one intermediate dynamic programming question.

My solutions to the average-difficulty questions worked, but were not optimal, and I didn't perform well on the dynamic programming question. I wasn't too surprised when they contacted me a couple of weeks later saying they were passing.

Even though it was disappointing, the engineers I talked to were all very pleasant throughout the process.

If you want to intern or work full-time here, I would recommend practicing problems until your solutions are efficient and you can tackle some intermediate-advanced problems. (I'd rate the interview as intermediate difficulty, but Glassdoor doesn't have an option for intermediate, and I wouldn't say it was average.)

Questions

An intermediate dynamic programming question.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 68 interview experiences for the Groupon Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

18%
Pass Rate

Groupon's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive40%
Neutral37%
Negative24%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Groupon's Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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