Groupon Account Executive interview experience

On the day, I first did a phone screening, then I came into the Chicago office. The in-person flow was efficient but demanding: I interviewed one person for about half an hour, then I shadowed a sales rep on the floor, and then I interviewed a second different person for another half hour.

That shadowing piece was the part that made it feel less theoretical. It wasn’t just “talk about sales,” it was watching how the day-to-day rhythm looked while calls were happening. I didn’t get an offer, but I actually appreciated how direct the whole sequence was—there wasn’t much room for guessing what