Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó 1 día. Acudí a una entrevista en Groupon (Mountain View, CA) en jun 2011
Entrevista
Of the five engineers who interviewed me, only one asked questions that would distinguish a good engineer from a mediocre one. One interviewer asked a series of puzzles -- most of them easy and which told the interviewer nothing about my ability to write readable, testable, or correct code. One interviewer ran out of questions after eight minutes (I checked my watch). One was a front-end engineer who asked me questions about front-end work even though I very clearly stated that I was a backend engineer and had no interest in working on the front end.
The technical staff seemed fairly junior and the company appeared to have tremendous technical debt.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Probably the best question I was asked went along the lines of: when designing an API between front-end/UI code and backend servers, what technologies would you choose and, more importantly, why would you choose one over the other?
Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 1 día. Acudí a una entrevista en Groupon (Praga) en oct 2024
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Interviewer late. Wouldn't proceed with interview without a camera on; cited cheating on an online test being an issue. It's a great way to kill any kind of trust dynamic within the first couple minutes - massive red flag for me and very indicative of company culture.
Me postulé a través de un reclutador. Acudí a una entrevista en Groupon (Bengaluru) en feb 2024
Entrevista
First round - Coding
Second round - Design
Design booking reservation system like bookmyshow
where exactly will you lock the seat for 5 minutes
concurrency issues
which database will you use for each service
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
First round - Coding
Implement LRU cache using hashmap of key and doubly linked list, how will you refactor the code
Second round - Design
Design booking reservation system like bookmyshow
Draw different services involved in online drawing tool.
Draw the diagram neatly as they will take snapshot of the diagram at end of the interview and evaluate your performance on same diagram later. No matter how well you verbally explain things, put everything in the diagram as the diagram will get evaluated later.
Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Groupon en abr 2023
Entrevista
I was contacted by agency to join groupon as a contractor. I did first round of interview with a coding task leetcode easy and some SQL query. I was asked for a second round and after scheduled the date they just cancelled with the explanation they already found the java developer. Very unprofessional and not respectful of people time.
