Awful - Business Development Groupon Employee Review

2.0
16 May 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good people, fun events, unlimited PTO (if you hit all your goals and metrics). I did well here and made decent money.

Cons

I don't know where these positive reviews are coming from because all anyone does here is complain. It used to fun and we had reasonable goals and managers seemed to care about developing their reps. With the restructuring all of this went away. The restructure was designed for reps to make less money. You get paid for 30 days when the algorithm is designed to sell deals only after 30 days (and actually barely does anything at all). You can control how much work you put in but you can't control how your deals will sell no matter how hard you try. Every quarter something new comes out to steal more money from merchants, because screwing over reps didn't earn the company enough money. Managers are hit or miss and are promoted based on favoritism not skill. It's impossible to make real money anymore because the best accounts are handed to the biggest reps. The product is stale and all merchants absolutely hate it. New initiatives have a lifespan of a year at most and then mysteriously disappear. I worked there for 3 years and the app still doesn't work! Maybe that'd be something good for them to work on....

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5.0
2 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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