Groupon

Good work-life balance. A large portion of the company is probably only in the office 50% of the time, and less of that time is actually spent working.

A very small pocket of solid engineers, though shrinking because they are jumping ship.

If you negotiated hard for your salary, it could be pretty high (we are desperate to hire), though you will be making a lot more than the people at your level who got promoted into that level or did not negotiate as hard.

Software Engineering is valued the least at this company. If you rank roles, it's sales people, then business people, then product people, and last come software engineers.

Terrible decisions made by the sales and business people cause a lot of trouble for engineers, mostly because those people are weak decision-makers and very poorly planned.

Product managers often give really weak and ill-defined product requirements. Engineers aren't allowed to define the product; they are relegated to just doing what they're told.

Often, the product managers aren't even thinking through their decisions. When engineers ask for clarifying questions, it's clear that the product managers didn't really think things through. Sometimes their response is to just yell at the engineers.

Product managers also throw engineers under the bus for many mistakes they make, like product change requirements that result in a delay of delivery. Or they don't think through the end-to-end process and forget to include a business team, then the whole project gets killed.

Mission focus isn't clear as well. There's a big push for the goods business, but the company's mission is supposed to be about connecting people with local merchants. They're just doing it because there's money to be made.

That's kind of the only driving factor at this company: making money. No one cares about making a long-term sustainable business or a good user experience unless they can make money off it. Not saying this is a bad goal, but this is basically the only goal.

The company is very junior in experience. Even folks in very senior leadership positions aren't very experienced and thus make a lot of bad decisions. Most people get to those levels because loyalty is promoted, or maybe it's out of desperation because they can't find anyone else.

No advice. You've driven out too much of your top talent and sacrificed too much of your business to optimize for the next financial quarter.