Status: Undergraduate Student @ Top 30 CS School
Position: Groupon 2018 Software Development Engineering Intern
Location: San Francisco, CA
Process:
On Campus: 1x 45 minute technical interview
Onsite: 2x 45 minute technical interviews
Interview Structure:
- Introduce yourself, most notable project
- Coding
- Run code, test cases
Coding Questions:
On Campus:
Median of Linked List - Given a linked list of either odd or even length, find the median element
Example:
1 -> 7 -> 5 -> 10 -> 9 should return 5
1 -> 7 -> 8 -> 10 should return 7 (round down by one if length is even)
Valid Brackets
Given a set of brackets, are they correctly balanced using opening and closing brackets?
ie (({})) and {}{}() are valid,
but C(h{ica}g]o is not because ( != ]
Interview #1: 1. Two Sum
Interview #2: 49. Group Anagrams
Salary: 7400/month + signing bonus + 3k housing stipend
Intern signing bonus is crazy, 7.5k for Chicago location and 10k for Bay Area. Free lunch in SF and Palo Alto Office.
Free Caltrain pass for Bay Area Offices
Best of luck!