GROUPON Sde3 Interview Experience

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May 29, 20256 reads

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

  1. https://leetcode.com/problems/decode-ways/description/
  2. 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)

Q1
Decode Ways
Data Structures & AlgorithmsMedium

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.

Q2
Design Twitter
System DesignHard

Design a system like Twitter, focusing on scalability, reliability, and key features such as posting tweets, following users, and generating timelines.

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