Re:Ask HN: Best big companies to work for?
by tsm on Sunday January 26, 2014 @03:16PM
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Groupon is headquartered in Chicago, but has a big office in Palo Alto. Very modern tooling, decent compensation, working from home is fine, keeping your own hours is fine, 40 hour weeks (including lunch) is the norm, interesting problems.
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As a former Groupon employee in Palo Alto (they acquired my startup this past year) I can tell you working from home is most definitely not "fine."
My startup was based in San Francisco. Even though Groupon has an office in the city, they mandated my entire team be in the Palo Alto office from day one.
The rest of the things you mention are spot on. Besides the commute issue I had no complaints.
Re:Ask HN: Best big companies to work for?
by ironchef on Sunday January 26, 2014 @04:37PM
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It might've been the plumfare crew. They had little issue with my working remotely as well. Of course when they attempted to pressure me to come in the office more I gave them the choice of having me less hours and in the office or more hours and working from home. Not there any more, but just adding more views on things...
I would differ with the "modern tooling" opinion though.