Java Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Groupon with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 52.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at Groupon as a Java Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
Group panel interview: 25%
Skills test: 25%
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the interview was a live coding exercise with a senior engineer from groupon looking at how you code, you could use either on line editor or your own IDE if you prefer so
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
fork join pool for printing number sequence in parallel
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Groupon (Berlin) in Nov 2012
Interview
I applied through german recruiting agency.
After two interviews via skype (not very difficult) they invited me to their office in Berlin (they covered all the expenditures - flight and the hotel).
There were 3 interviews:
1. interview with HR about salary and organization
2. technical interview about java - usual technical questions + they asked me to write program on the whiteboard
3. architecture-related interview. They asked me to design the high-load system and describe how I would implement it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
how would you implement data exchange communication between two projects