Groupon reviews

2.8

41% would recommend to a friend

(4,359 total reviews)
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Dusan Senkypl

43% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Groupon has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 4,359 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Groupon employee rating is 27% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0
Jun 8, 2010
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Pros

Groupon allows you the freedom to be who you are, which allows a large open forum to share ideas no matter how far out they are....and potentially allowing you to drive your own career path. The world really is your oyster here at this stage of the game. As long as you are doing your job, you can take as much paid time off as needed. It has to be one of the funnest environments to work in. It inspires success. Groupon employs some of the best when it comes to customer service, marketing, management, & editorial.

Cons

My only real gripe, and for some this could be a big one, is they don't have a very structured fair compensation plan for sales yet and no match on 401k. In regards to compensation, salaries vary across the board even when success & experience are equal. In addition, commission paid out can be very dependent on the market you work in. There are definitely some sales that work just as hard, are just as skilled, are just as experienced, and make much less in commission than others (and by less we are comparing thousands of dollars a month).

2.0
Jun 7, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

No vacation policy--you can take as many days off as you think you deserve. Quickly growing company so you're not likely to be unemployed anytime soon Young company with a great sense of humor

Cons

Speaking from a point of view as someone on editorial only. Sales have a totally different experience I'm sure. Expect the management to be a few people who got in on the ground floor when Groupon was nothing (probably due to being friends with Andrew Mason) and are still hanging around, now managing a large staff, which they are painfully unqualified to do. Expect rampant but veiled employee discontent. Expect to be underpaid while you watch tons of money be wasted on salaries that shouldn't need to exist (the writeups go through four more stages of editorial after getting written. Four! Why not just hire better writers, or invest the time and energy in actually training them!)

3.0
Feb 8, 2010

New to Groupon

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

As a new organization, you're not dealing with legacy systems. Everyone is relatively new. The idea is to have fun.

Cons

There's isn't a lot of structure.

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