Pros: Standard tech company benefits like free soda and funky furniture.

Cons: My manager was completely incompetent. Luckily, he has since left the company. Some of the people I worked with here were very conniving and threw their teams under the bus in order to score a few points from management. Groupon tried to bill itself as "the next Amazon," but did not have the engineering talent or management structure to support that claim. Instead, you got a lot of horrible leaders who were only in their position because they happened to be there when Groupon was growing. As a result, GRPN (at least in engineering) was a revolving door. I saw several people start with enthusiasm, only to leave after a month. Now that the company is older and clearly is not the next Amazon, you would expect that they would change their management style and try to retain engineers, but from what I have heard, they are actually doubling down on the aggressive "bro" culture and shipping jobs to India or Ireland.

Pros: Groupon has two IT hubs in Europe. One is in Berlin and the other is in Dublin. Currently, I am working in the Dublin city center in a backend Java environment. I have been working at Groupon for only a few months, but I love it due to the scope of projects that I can work on. Groupon is much more than just a daily deal website. There are 12,000 people working at Groupon worldwide, and this is phenomenal for a company that is only 6 years old. I work with top engineers who came from larger tech companies, as Groupon offers more freedom to be creative and to sculpt a career. Groupon is still in startup mode, but the company is stable and cash-rich. The salaries are very strong, along with the benefits: Health, sick pension, etc.

Cons: The weather in Dublin is not great, but I am looking forward to the summer.

Pros: Relatively autonomous app development teams Smart people Lots of interesting technologies Weekly Geekfest meetups Inclusive workplace Personal growth benefit for engineers (budget for conferences, training, books, etc) Twice a year hackfests

Cons: * A bit chaotic * Frequent shifts in direction and priority * The stock market doesn't like GRPN * No 401(k) match