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If Google buys Groupon: A massive culture clash
- akkartik 16y ago"In Groupon's bustling 1,000-person Chicago headquarters, heroes include comedy writers, improv actors, and buzzing rooms of salespeople. There is an office elaborately decorated as a bedroom for an imaginary, deranged tenant. It's hilarious, but also the kind of thing that the brains at Google probably wouldn't find funny, or support." Has the author ever been to the Google offices? From what I read here Groupon would fit right in. Both companies seem to be extremely bottom-up, embracing chaos and weirdness. Technical vs non-technical seems like a detail. (And Google employs a lot of non-technical folks.) Disclaimer: I now work at Google. When I interviewed there I saw a newsletter in the urinals. Do you think an algorithm thought of that?