Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto una settimana. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Groupon (Palo Alto, CA) nel mese di feb 2013
Colloquio
Initial Contact - Phone from in-house recruiter. Standard questions, from a nice person. Nothing particularly difficult or memorable, but the recruiter was high energy without being hyper. It went well enough that she wanted to schedule phone screen with the hiring manager.
Phone Screen/Interview with 'hiring manager' - again there were fairly standard interview questions for a screen - nothing too in-depth as it's limited time of course. We discussed my views of a change they were considering. I felt that things went well and was confident that I could work with/for this person.
Scheduled in-person Interviews - this took a little longer than originally suggested, but her original plan was within 2 days and I understand that it's hard to coordinate schedules for more than 2 people..... The plan was for me to meet with 5 people at their Palo Alto offices (though the director would be remote in Chicago Headquarters)
In-Person Interviews - Upon arrival I was greeted by the 'Interview Coordinator?' someone that assists the recruiter with interviews. She was pleasant and helpful. She explained that unfortunately there were some last minute important meeting conflicts and that I would not be able to meet with everyone as scheduled. OK - stuff happens.
- I was shown to a conference room for a video conference with the director in Chicago. Almost immediately there were technical issues with delayed response on the video and poor audio quality. Frustrating, but not that uncommon in my experience. We switched to just audio via phone. I felt this person really didn't want to talk to me and was just going through the motions. Nothing was directly said, but she wasn't engaged, but was distracted. We talked for less than 30 minutes even including the technical problems and then she had to run to another meeting.
- I then next spoke briefly with the 'hiring manager' I had spoken to previously on the phone. She apologized for the scheduling problems and said they'd get back to me.......
I knew better. I could tell that it was unlikely there would be serious further contact.
My guess - the 'hiring manager' wasn't really in charge. She had gone forward with scheduling me for interviews before having approval from the director. The director either didn't like something about me or just being forced to interview (or allow her team) to interview a candidate she hadn't pre-approved.
Oh well, miscommunications happen and I was just a by-product casualty.
Domande di colloquio [1]
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There weren't any. As I indicated above, I feel it was a perfunctory, pro-tracted interview.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Groupon
Colloquio
Received offer but rejected because of loss of trust in leadership through the interview process.
Invested 4+ weeks to receive an offer which was for a temporary contract position.
It was obvious that leadership had consciously made the decision to hide this until the very end of the process. Not sure what the intention was here, but it would have been easier for everyone involved to be transparent from the initial recruitment call.
I hope no candidate has to go through this again.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Case study to build a merchant listing creation flow using AI tools.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Groupon
Colloquio
The overall process took 3 weeks and the response another week. There were 3 interviews in total. 1 Phone screen, 2 hiring manager and then the 3rd executive leader. Very straightforward interview process.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto una settimana. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Groupon (New York, NY) nel mese di gen 2022
Colloquio
I was invited for the first round of the Project manager position at Groupon. The first round was HR phone screen. They didn't get back to me and on follow up said they filled the position internally.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Q. Tell me about yourself?
Q. Why this company?
Q. Tell me about a time you had to deal with a difficult client / customer.
Q. What makes you a good fit for the position?