I have years of experience in outside sales and have always been quite successful. When I interviewed with Groupon, I was excited for the opportunity to be a part of a new company that has a lot of growth potential.
While in training, I wished I would had not left my previous job as I quickly realized that this is not a "true" outside sales job. This role is given leads to call but really it's an inside sales job. You sit in your home office dialing for dollars. The only reason it's "outside" is because you can go on an appointments with your leads. These leads make no sense and are all over the Dallas metroplex which can take over an hour to get to. There are no territories so you can't just stop in places and cold call. Groupons idea of cold calling is dialing off their lists. Most of the good accounts are owned by inside sales reps in Chicago. I have never worked for accompany that inside sales reps have more prestige and power than outside reps but I promise you, the outside sales reps are not considered important.
My time with Groupon was quite disapointing and the turn over with outside reps is quite high. IF you make it to your one year anniversary, then really you deserve a trophy. Pretty much every outside rep was keeping their eyes open looking for something else.
I would not recommend this company to anyone.
