The company is on a downward path to fail. - Account Executive Groupon Employee Review

1.0
Aug 29, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

The sales staff is nice. They are educated, young, and ambitious to succeed. They have free beverages all day long.

Cons

Inexperienced management. Most have zero management experience. They simply got promoted after 2-3 months of fresh sales experience and treat people like dirt. Goals are set in place that no one reach. They are firing people left and right for no good reason. Cut commissions and eliminated bonuses. Sales staff make about 80% less than they did 5 months ago. Competition is fierce and Groupon is not making changes to counter what perks competition does for merchants. Move desks constantly and disrupts work. Required to work Saturdays. No cap for time off, but make it impossible to take a day off. They make you feel guilty to take a Saturday off to go to a wedding. Sales staff cries all the time. Editorial is unhelpful and rude which makes the job next to impossible. They do not care at all about merchants. They just push the merchants so far that they will never work with Groupon again. Noisy call center environment.

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5.0
Jan 2, 2026
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Pros

Learned a great deal here. My first big guy job and the responsibilities kept me focused and motivated. I grew a lot as a person at Groupon as well

Cons

Not many cons. People are really cool.

2.0
Jun 11, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Gaining experience targeting multiple industries

Cons

Management doesn’t care about you. Unrealistic goals. Everyone at 30-40% of quota. Complicated quota attainment system. Your job is to ask for 70% of margins for small businesses that have only 10-15% margin budgets

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