Groupon Software Engineer interview experience

The vibe was rough from the start—my interviewer didn’t seem engaged, rushed past problem framing, and even implied I wouldn’t know the language they were using. I shut down for a moment, then powered through the rest of the call.

The on-site experience ended up feeling similarly hard to read, just for different reasons. I went through long stretches of grilling, and the schedule included a lunch segment that made it hard to reset between rounds. What surprised me was how little of it felt like hands-on “problem solving” or coding compared to other processes I’d experienced, and most of the