If I could choose 0/5 I would have - Anonymous employee Groupon Employee Review

1.0
10 Mar 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Wear what you want to work. No stuffy corporate clothes.

Cons

Where do I start... The focus is solely on sales. No other departments matter regardless of the hours and hard work they put in. Horrible....just horrible HR team. They are more concerned with their weekends, hair, makeup etc, rather than doing their job and concentrating on employees. Bad attitudes, unwilling to help and just very unprofessional. The firing/redundancy process is disgusting. No empathy or compassion shown at all. Very ruthless and uncaring. Replacing people straight away. Illegal?? People in management don't know what they are doing. Untrained, unqualified. Poor people skills and zero communication. Unable to lead effectively or motivate staff. Management talking disrespectfully and badly around staff about other employees. Mass firing/redundancy. No transparency or reasons given to staff which contributes to the already unstable, negative and chaotic work environment. Very very unethical behaviour. Deceptive. Wouldn't be surprised if an outsider was to look into Groupon's paperwork and systems and found an element of cheating and trickery. Failure to deal with any issues that arise. Groupon's go to 'solution' is to sweep it away and let good, hardworking, ethical people go rather than solve the problem. The 'Groupon culture' sucks. They will work you into the ground with no reward or recognition. Upper management jobs and promotions given to 'favourites', and spouses of other management rather than to people who actually do a great job and deserve it. Ridiculously high staff turnover. Underpaid. Morally and ethically questionable business practice.

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5.0
2 Jan 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
11 June 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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