Groupon

Standard tech company benefits like free soda and funky furniture.

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.

Focus on hiring talented people and retaining them for more than a year. A good engineer has a multiplying effect. They may not immediately meet the need of a project, but their contributions in the 1-2 year timeline will be huge, especially when coupled with other good engineers. If you create an "up and out" culture, you only reward the people who build for short-term success but leave your business in a bad position in the long term.