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livingsocial.com HQ: Washington, DC
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“Lies, Unprofessional Management, Abuse”
Current Marketing Consultant in Township Washinton, NJ – Reviewed Dec 4, 2012

Cons – Daily HR violations
Lies

“Executives are in over their head”
Former Senior Marketing Associate in Washington, DC – Reviewed Feb 27, 2013 – New

Communication is pathetic. I sold takeout and delivery and I was never told when the product was going to launch until I read about it in the news.
Not efficient - managers take over a month to make simple decisions that could be made in one hour.
Its a "fake it till you make it" hierarchy. Directors and executives are all talk and basically take 50 PTO days and play on their computers all day. Not very motivating

Advice to Senior Management – Restructure the whole organization. Hire seasoned directors and executives instead of 20 somethings who just want to make money and have fun. Culture should be more strict.

Strategic Account Manager-Intel
VMware – Reston, VA

“Cool brand but dying industry”
Former Account Manager in San Diego, CA – Reviewed Feb 22, 2013 – New
Cons – incompetent management and dying product.
Advice to Senior Management – get out in the field

“Sinking Ship”
Former Sales in New York, NY – Reviewed Feb 21, 2013 – New

Advice to Senior Management – Get out now, company won't last very long

“Horrible Place, Worst Experience Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Former Account Manager in Washington, DC – Reviewed Sep 8, 2012
No one is happy. Employees are crying in the bathrooms and taking long lunch breaks for job interviews. People are dropping left and right, either getting fired for not hitting outlandish goals or leaving for positions with an actual career path. Comp plan changes for no reason and terrible direction. All the while, they punish employees by having them go on performance plans or firing them while they are experimenting with plans. When questioned about the extremely high turnover, terrible responses such as "we only want the best" or "that's the nature of sales" is given. Instead of being an innovate company, they just want to copy others.

Worst of all, they set your expectations during the interview so high, while knowing too well that you will never make that overall comp. They are crooks!

Given how badly Groupon peformed post IPO, they can no longer go IPO, so everybody is leaving.

Be warned, stay away!!!!

Advice to Senior Management – Stop treating employees as a number and be honest with them.

“Long hours, very hard to move, do not look behind the curtain”
Current Inside Sales in Washington, DC – Reviewed Jul 16, 2012
LivingSocial talks a big game about how innovated they are but their sales department is a carbon copy of every other sales department out there, if you've worked in one whip cracking sales department you've worked at LivingSocial's. The one they got going for them is a lot of young people who dont know any better and don't mind drinking the kool aid. They'll be delusional and talk about the great perks but they really don't know any better. Also, I find a lot of the practices unethical. We were told not to post fake reviews on ratings sites so that our merchants look better. But then LivingSocial corporate/HR does the same thing

The biggest con is a con in itself.
“Bread and Circuses replaces all values”
Former Employee in Washington, DC – Reviewed Jun 7, 2012

I would think an organization who communicates to their employees that they are not like that wouldnt: lay off influential employees, punish those who do not bend the rules, force employees into roles they are not comfortable with and threaten them with unemployment if they don't comply, make false promises, not consider all factors when coming up with performance plans, etc

- Inadequate leadership. This stems from having too many on staff that are not experienced enough to handle the tasks at hand.

- Inept leadership. I do not need the VP of sales to tell me to make more money to "just sign better deals." My eyes could not roll further back into my head.

- Comp plan changes with no rhyme or reason and terrible direction. All the while, they punish employees by having them go on performance plans or firing them while they are experimenting with plans. When questioned about the extremely high turnover, terrible responses such as "we only want the best" or "that's the nature of sales" is given. Instead of being an innovate company seems as if they want to follow lock step behind others.

- And worst of all, the Bread and Circus. LivingSocial has taken a page out of the formula the Romans used to keep the populace at bay. They knew that conditions were terrible and so to keep the general populace at bay, the Romans gave away bread and held circuses for entertainment. LivingSocial does the same and disguises it as "culture." Take away the bread and circuses and you have an extremely unhappy employee base.

Advice to Senior Management – Be an actually innovative company.

Senior Wholesaler/External Practice Management Consultant
Advice to Senior Management – RETRENCH! get back the good, upscale subscribers and lose the tanning, National, and kettleball deals!

“Pitiful”
Current Account Executive Manager in Orlando, FL – Reviewed Feb 26, 2012
Disgusting Local Management.
Selfish to point of "winning becomes more important than ethics and honesty"
Gossipy, easily put down competition when competition clearly outshines Living Social.
Most unethical group of people to work with. If you have ethics, morals, scruples, a sense of
fairness and have been up to this point descent - THIS IS NOT THE PLACE FOR YOU.
If you posses those traits run to DC and get the job. You will fit in at all levels right up to the President.
By the way if I was an investor quickly demand your money back and RUN!

Advice to Senior Management – EGO's so big - they all think they are Local God's so full of Self Worship.

“I drank the Kool-Aid and woke up in Sugar Shock”
Former Marketing Consultant in Brooklyn, NY – Reviewed Feb 5, 2012

“Don't waste your time!”
Current Marketing Consultant in Los Angeles, CA – Reviewed Dec 1, 2011

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MITRE – McLean, VA

“Great Employees, bad communication.”
Horrible communication. Leadership was held by those with little experience who did not know how to manage people.
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Poor management; job was not what I interviewed for”
Former Employee – Reviewed Dec 10, 2012

Strategic Account Manager-Intel

“Lack of Integrity and Honesty”
Former Employee – Reviewed Nov 13, 2012

Sr. Management and BP (lacking integrity and emotional maturity)
Hiring people who lack certifications and credentials

Advice to Senior Management – Be honest with your employees and be sure to provide them with a solid support and development system in which you are willing to back up.

“Absolutely miserable experience full of stress and LOW PAY”
Current Marketing Consultant – Reviewed Jun 3, 2012
management that is clueless
You will be churned and burned and replaces without a thought
Groupon is offering better cuts and we are supposed to tell the merchant "oh well, we are God and won't do that"
Don't be fooled by these phony HR planted reviews. This is a miserable existence where you will literally wake up in the middle of the night thinking "I have to get another deal."
If you have any more that 5 years in sales....walk away from this. You get into sales for autonomy and the money. With this, you have NEITHER.

“Dying industry - TERRIBLE salary, zero respect for staff, unrealistic goals”
Current Account Executive, Outside Sales – Reviewed Mar 4, 2012
“Merchants don't want to run deals!”
Current Senior Marketing Consultant-Outside – Reviewed Jan 4, 2012

I have been at LS over 18 months. My biggest issue is that most merchants are now pretty savvy to the "deal" space and no longer want to participate. Both LS and Groupon have a bad reputation.
They are unhappy with type of customer they are getting, no repeat business, only deal seekers and in some cases have been pushed to brink of bankruptcy.
I would like to leave as I feel morally that what we are selling is no longer in the business owners best interests and my conscience is getting the better of me...

Advice to Senior Management – sell before it is too late!

I was misled and made a huge mistake by coming on board”
Current Marketing Consultant – Reviewed Dec 20, 2011

Markets are saturated. Trying to get 20 new clients every month is nearly impossible unless you're in a new or huge market

Advice to Senior Management – You reap what you sow. I'm checked out.

“Holding on by a thread”
Former Employee – Reviewed Dec 12, 2011
Advice to Senior Management – You are a lawsuit waiting to happen

“Karma is not going to be kind Livingsocial - you are headed towards a train wreck!”