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google cached his linkedin profile. sigh. i feel bad for the guy, you just can't escape a bad move made in a consumer-facing market like this. http://webcach

google cached his linkedin profile. sigh. i feel bad for the guy, you just can't escape a bad move made in a consumer-facing market like this. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:X821DtR3QlUJ:www.linkedin.com/pub/andy-johnston/41/81/119+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:X821DtR... i challenge the comment above - that this reflects groupon hiring people who are "lucky to work in a mailroom or as a waiter". if anything, they are over-hiring for their roles - this guy is a UC Berkeley grad, which implies a certain level of intelligence. making sales like this could easily be done by a boiler room in manilla.

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dylz 13y ago
That program isn't exactly what I would call a cal grad
bdcravens 13y ago
I wasn't necessarily targeting Groupon, but what's makes them different than any other company? The fact that he has a degree doesn't mean anything. Check out that LinkedIn profile you linked: sports, sports, sports, in both his personal life and background. If some of his other reported past-time activities are true, I'm sure he partied hard in college. He's a typical college kid if he partied, played, and walked across the stage rocking a 2.7 GPA. Nothing extraordinary about getting a degree, other than to say you crossed the finish line. That in no way suggests you have the persistence to succeed - rather than performing daily, plenty in college cram enough during finals to get their C. Maturity: college can help with this, but I know plenty of jock bros who're little more than a 15 year old inside when they receive their bachelor's degree. Plenty of kids graduate and continue their college life: Playstation and beer, living at home with their parents instead of the dorm. They search for a job, but with no experience (didn't get a job in college, that would take time away from the frat) and little maturity, they often end up waiters, or at an entry level gig like the mailroom.

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dylz 13y ago

That program isn't exactly what I would call a cal grad

bdcravens 13y ago

I wasn't necessarily targeting Groupon, but what's makes them different than any other company? The fact that he has a degree doesn't mean anything. Check out that LinkedIn profile you linked: sports, sports, sports, in both his personal life and background. If some of his other reported past-time activities are true, I'm sure he partied hard in college. He's a typical college kid if he partied, played, and walked across the stage rocking a 2.7 GPA. Nothing extraordinary about getting a degree, other than to say you crossed the finish line. That in no way suggests you have the persistence to succeed - rather than performing daily, plenty in college cram enough during finals to get their C. Maturity: college can help with this, but I know plenty of jock bros who're little more than a 15 year old inside when they receive their bachelor's degree. Plenty of kids graduate and continue their college life: Playstation and beer, living at home with their parents instead of the dorm. They search for a job, but with no experience (didn't get a job in college, that would take time away from the frat) and little maturity, they often end up waiters, or at an entry level gig like the mailroom.