I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Groupon in Sep 2015
Interview
Recruiter contacted me and set up a technical phone interview. The interviewer was very helpful person and corrected me with the coding question. I got another technical phone interview with the developer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Groupon.com is giving 404 error - test this.
2. Is string1 a subset of string2? - write a method.
3. Test Contact app from Mobile perspective.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Groupon (San Jose, CA) in Apr 2017
Interview
Starts with a recruiter round followed by a technical interview over the phone. The recruiter handling my case was maybe new and she messed up a couple of things. After phone rounds she scheduled my onsite interview. She calls me the day before my interview and tells me that she messed up because i had the same name as other candidate and she was suppose to schedule his interview not mine. For me they need to schedule another technical phone round which was done a couple of days and later i got a "Thank you for your interest email ... "
QA Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Groupon with 4 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.
Candidates applying for QA Engineer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Groupon overall takes an average of 18 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Groupon as a QA Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
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