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Sri Viswanath shares the ideas and program driving Groupon’s engineering culture. Filmed at qconsf.com.
Sri Viswanath joined Groupon as Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations in April 2013. Prior to joining Groupon, Sri was VP of research and development for mobile computing at VMWare.
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9. Groupon is the
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
250M+ subscribers nearly 53M active customers 500+ markets
$7b+ in annual billings 600M+ deals sold nearly 12,000 global employees
11. behavior of humans within an organization and the
meaning that people attach to those behaviors.
Includes organization's vision, values, norms, systems,
symbols, language, assumptions, beliefs, and habits.
Org culture
22. Mentor/Mentee Retro Feedback
Quoted Highlights.
• I liked that the mentor was entirely removed from mentee’s org tree.
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frustrations.
• Slightly surprised at what I was able to share and that it was so high impact. I was able to add value in places I
didn’t expect to.
• This highlighted some of the org challenges to me; I was able to help increase competency in how to
work at a company like Groupon.
• It was good to have someone who followed up with me during a change of manager.