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Building Groupon’s Global Engineering CultureBrian McCallister!CTO of Platform, Groupon @brianm
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Part I:Groupon: Growth and Engineering
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November 2008
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2008
10 Employees
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2010
300+ Employees
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2012
10,000+ Employees
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Groupon is the global leader in local commerce,making it easy for people around the world to search and discover great businesses at unbeatable prices.
Source: Internal data,, June 2014
WORLDWIDE
200M+ subscribers 53M+ active customers 500+ markets 600M+ deals sold
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$5b+ in annual billings nearly 12,000 global employees
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Part II:Building Groupon’s
Global Engineering Culture
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Megamind
Payments
G2G3
Goods
Basic
sGetaways
Hotels
FreebiesStores
iTier
GnomeBreadcrumb
bPOS
Widgets
Mobile
Deal builder
TMON
Ideel
Pers
onal
Colle
ctio
nsUGC
SmartDeals
Gift Cards
Seamless Redemption
RTRPULL
Snap
Sidetour
Deal WizardNe
arbyShopping Cart
CRM
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Retrospectives
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Team Ethos
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Principles
AutonomyConnection Excellence
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Global Internal Hackathon
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Skeletor
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Career Ladders
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We “stole” from all of these (and more)
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GEMs Mentoring Program
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Part III:Results
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Groupon is no longer simply a “daily deals” merchant but a technology company. - GigaOm
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A long journey
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Discuss!Brian McCallister!CTO of Platform, Groupon @brianm