Poor benefits - poor pay, long hours, poor holiday allowance, poor sick policy, little/no perks.
This is a growth company struggling to continue that original growth, and all policies are aimed at short term gain to please shareholders. Since floating on the stock market, staff numbers and wages have been squeezed almost to breaking point. The lengths of this have even stretched to the Christmas party, which will be mid-January this year to save even more pennies.
No chance of career progression - the ethos of Groupon is short-term from top to bottom. Career progression is encouraged in the form of changing career - by leap frogging around the company hoping to find a department that is shrinking slightly less fast or paid slightly better. Do not work here if you want to learn new skills or progress, there is a glass ceiling above all that makes upwards progress impossible, so unless you want to 'progress' by moving sideways to a completely different role then forget it.
Hugely high staff turnover - Due mainly to the above two points but also as the company shrinks the workload on each person increases. New tasks, new responsibilities, endlessly working harder but yet pay-rises are dangled in front of everyone but never materialise. I've never been at a company with higher turnover, the majority of people at the company 2 years ago have gone.
Operations side of the company is a complete mess. Treated like a disposable under-class.
