Groupon reviews

2.8

41% would recommend to a friend

(4,362 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 4,362 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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4K reviews
5.0
Sep 11, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Groupon is easily the most unique and interesting office to work at and has some of the best employees and managers I've encountered in my professional work life. They easily recognize hard work and skills and quickly reward good performance with new job opportunities and skills. I gained a great deal of experience, confidence and professionalism in my years in this fun, quirky company.

Cons

My job was removed with no notice and most likely given to outsourced employees overseas. I was in great standing and frequently recognized by my own and other departments for my work and skills and was completely blindsided by their decision to lay off 130 employees in one go regardless of status. It shows that Groupon is above all a business and I'd advise anyone working there to be careful about planning to be there long term.

4.0
Aug 3, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great work-life balance, nice location (Seattle), great people. A lot of opportunity to learn new stuff and grow. The new CEO is very good. Rich has a plan and he's executing it properly.

Cons

No 401k match, swinging stocks. Sometimes bureaucracy becomes intolerable.

2.0
Jul 2, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Relaxed work environment Lots of turnover so there is always room to grow.

Cons

Very disorganized at all levels of the business. Below is just on my experience working with their data. If you work in data don't work here unless you have no other options. Their tech stack is 7 years old and is a complete mess. There is no organization among their tables, incredibly hard to understand their table structures and get basic pieces of info. You should not need to do 5-7 joins to get answers to basic order questions. If you have any questions about the data(integrity) or need to understand their ETL process you have to work with their EDW team, who is a complete disaster and has no organization. They use tableau which is a fine tool to pretty much just display excel sheets, a complete waste of an excellent product. Weekly fire drills from management completely disrupting the work flow of other issues they have requested. Once complete there are questions on why other projects have not been completed. Little understanding on the difficulty of some of their requests. Few actual analysts among the managers who manage the analytical teams, so there is little understanding of how work gets done in this field.

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