Horrible leadership with worse vision - SDE 3 Groupon Employee Review

1.0
Aug 8, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the developers used to be good but they all left or were laid off.

Cons

The leadership is horrible. They lack vision, the answer to everything is cost cutting. They’re a bunch of unmotivated non talented old people just looking to scam their way through life. They’re out of touch with their target audience too. As a developer there is no documentation of services. KTLO will suck you dry. The leadership will keep flip flopping and you’ll never get to work on anything good.

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Groupon Response
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Thank you for your thoughtful feedback about your Groupon experience so far. We're sorry to hear it hasn't lived up to your expectations. We strive to create a workplace culture where you're excited to log on every day and build great things for our customers, merchants, and communities. We recognize your review touches on pieces of the turn-around strategy that are making it difficult to complete your role. We're always looking for employee feedback, so we hope you've had the opportunity to discuss this with your manager, larger leadership team, or in our anonymous Pulse surveys. We acknowledge it's been a difficult few months as Groupon executes our turn-around strategy, but we're extremely grateful to have employees who care about Groupon's future along for the ride, helping us build the momentum we need to position our business to grow profitably in a variety of economic cycles. Thanks again for the review and for all you do for Groupon's success.

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