Groupon reviews

- Don't care about developing sales employees professionally: the only thing that matters is what you did for them that week or even that day. The future is not something they think about, because most people leave within months of hitting the cold-calling sales floor. - Activity goals that get in the way of closing contracts and making the company money. They also leave employees exhausted which affects our personal lives. Oh, and they change almost weekly - no consistency or time to adapt. - No safe place to go with questions - my HR "partner" went behind my back to tell my boss I was reaching out to her for simple clarification questions, not even with an actual problem. My manager yelled at me and told me that I should really only come to him with questions - Extra-curricular activities that benefit the company actually discouraged if it does nothing for sales. - Getting promoted in sales used to take a quarter and now it takes a year which helps save Groupon a couple thousand per rep in salaries - Stay late policies that make you feel like you're in Kindergarten time out, instead of policies that incentivize you to use your time efficiently for a reward - Ultimately, it doesn't matter how well-connected you are or all the things you've contributed - a subjective clause in the code of conduct can be your undoing

Management is a joke. I worked there for over 2 1/2 years and in that time we went through 13 department heads. The first 2 years goals and bonuses changed every month. Recently they changed the compensation to where you would get a bonus every 3 months completely at manager discretion. If your manager doesn't like you then you will get nothing. The person that implemented that structure quit after 2 months. All of the managers were promoted internally based off nothing more than drinking the coolaid or hooking up with upper management. None of them have ever managed before and only micromanage. The workload is non stop and once a team loses someone they just expect you to take it on. This company has flat lined. Do yourself a favor and don't apply.