Worst place to work - Sales Groupon Employee Review

1.0
Oct 12, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

None. I wish I could put zero stars. You get paid peanuts. The average salesperson makes less than $40k. You have a call list of 200-300 people that you're actually approved to call and you're expected to make 90 calls a day. If you don't hit your call numbers, you will be fired, regardless of how much money you are bringing in. The managers look terrible. They are all in their mid 20's yet balding, overweight from all the stress, and drink almost every night. They come in hungover and tell stories of how much they drank, and then they openly pop adderall and fuel up on caffeine to get through the day. Hours are 8-6, and they will occasionally roll out 3 week stretches where you need to stay til 7. They encourage coming in on Saturday rather then enjoying your free time. PLEASE, do not but into the publicity videos and fake reviews they post. A casual dress code does not make up for low pay and long hours. The office is filled with distractions to keep your mind off of the pay/hours/goals.

Cons

Micro managed. People try to get you passionate about selling coupons. Worst of all, most businesses get absolutely screwed over. There were businesses that we worked so hard to convince a partnership with, and some of them went out of business because of a huge customer flood and a terrible revenue split. When this happened, management would simply say, 'Oh well whatever, it happens". Goals change weekly. People constantly quit. I had a team of 16 people and 15 people talked daily about quitting. The only one that didn't had recently gotten married and had 2 kids to support so he was trapped.

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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
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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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