GROUPON Sde3 Interview Experience
Summary
I had an interview for an SDE3 role at Groupon, consisting of three rounds: DSA, HLD, and Hiring Manager. I performed strongly in DSA and HLD, but despite my good performance in the behavioral round, I was ultimately rejected.
Full Experience
Round 1 - DSA
- https://leetcode.com/problems/decode-ways/description/
- Simple array question
(verdict - Strong Hire)
Round 2 - HLD
Design Twitter
(verdict - Strong Hire)
Round 3 - Hiring Manager
interviewer is from germany. mostly behavioural questions.
Interview went well from my side however the verdict was no hire
I have asked the reason for rejection - recuiter said we don't provide feedback. He said interviewer didnt liked your profile
Interview Questions (2)
Decode Ways
A message containing letters from A-Z can be encoded into numbers. Given a string s containing only digits, return the number of ways to decode it.
Design Twitter
Design a system like Twitter, focusing on scalability, reliability, and key features such as posting tweets, following users, and generating timelines.