Someone that works at groupon passed my resume to HR. I received an email and set up a short, 15 minute phone interview. That went well and I was invited to a second phone interview. The second interview was about 40 minutes. I was invited to interview in person in Philadelphia with The International VP of Sales and the City manager, who were flying in from Chicago to interview candidates for an evening and the following day. I prepared the best I could, preparing questions, seraching the internet for Groupon in the news, which was pretty negative at this point in time, stock performance, etc. I actually prepared a 30, 60, 90 day plan which I never had the opportuntiy to present. I also had prepared some info for role playing, even though I was told that it would just be conversational interview. I shook the hand of the City Manager and then was introduced to the International VP of Sales. He asked me about my background and then jumped right into role playing.... It was typical, he was a restaurant owner and I would try to sell him a groupon daily deal. I introduced grouon. I overcame 3 or 4 objections price( people spend more than the groupon), why do I need this (keep up with competition), keep new customers with groupon rewards, why no go with cheaper competitors- do not have the larger client base of groupon, brand, customer analysis, etc. He asked mre to calculate discounts- when I came up with the answer immediately, he tried to sutmp me with more difficult calulations. When he said he wanted to think about I set a follow up appt. But I didn't close him on the spot so he let me ask a couple questions and had the HR person tell me they would contact me next week. I never got to sit down with the city manager. MY RECOMMENDATION: BE PREPARED TO SELL! Practice role playing with anyone that will sit down with you before the interview!

I applied via LinkedIn after seeing the job posting and was quickly contacted by a recruiter for a phone interview. I was moved along in the process and had a phone interview with the Regional Sales Manager, who I would be directly reporting to. He told me he was interviewing ten people for the role, and would push his top two forward to speak to his boss, his boss's counterpart on the east coast, and then his boss's boss, the Vice President of the division. I happened to be one of the top two and was moved forward for three back to back phone interviews with the aforementioned people. I thought it went well and I built great rapport with all three. Much to my surprise, the recruiter who was guiding the interview process along went radio silent on me in regard to the next steps. When I contacted her, she said they were revamping the training and had put a hiring freeze on the role. She let me know I was still being considered and she'd be in touch in the next thirty days. I've heard nothing and it's been nearly sixty. Bottom line: Whether Groupon went in a different direction with another candidate, or eliminated the role entirely, that's completely fine - I would've simply expected the professional courtesy of an email back. I spent over a month in five different interviews with them and I found it disrespectful of my time and energy that they didn't get back to me. So if you're reading this, Groupon, I'm no longer interested.