Groupon·Software Engineer

Groupon Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Jul 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience started with a HackerRank-style coding step, then moved into face-to-face discussions.

In my case, after the test I had several in-person rounds that were run smoothly and with friendly panels, and I remember the interviewers being nice and the overall flow feeling straightforward. The technical bar felt manageable to me during those rounds, and the vibe was genuinely calm.

Still, I didn’t get an offer. What stuck with me was how specific some of the later technical questioning could feel, especially when it touched on areas like Android tooling and concepts—one round asked about technologies like RxJava and threading off the UI thread, even though a lot of my background was

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