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Summer at Groupon

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Talking about my experience as a graduate student intern at Groupon in summer 2013!
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What makes you, you? Genes Instructions from parents Stores on long strings of chemicals DNA (DeoxyriboNucleic Acid)
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What makes you, you?

Genes

Instructions from parents

Stores on long strings of chemicals

DNA (DeoxyriboNucleic Acid)

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DOUBLE HELIX

Order matters A LOT!!!

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Genome (entire DNA sequence)

3.2 billions of based pairs

9.5 years

10 wpm, 8 hours/day, 50 years

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6000 times to moon!

8 hours to copy!

99.9% identical

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Summer at Groupon

Sam Serpoosh@masihjesus

masihjesus.wordpress.comgithub.com/Sam-Serpoosh

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Little bit on Business I’m TERRIBLE at business (Please don’t

quote me on any of these!)

Helping LOCAL Businesses

Saved businesses and improved them a lot

Shedd Aquarium ran a Groupon and 14000 people showed up!

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A little bit on Business (Cont.) Finding appropriate merchants and

deals

Customizing deals specifically for each merchant!

Combination of Humans and Algorithms (rare combination)

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A little bit on Business (Cont.)

Go Mobile!

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A little bit on Business (Cont.)

More than 200 million subscribers

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A little bit on Business (Cont.)

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A little bit on Business (Cont.) Every day sending email to subscribers

(BORING! BooOooOo!!!)

BUT, editorial to the rescue (and other tricks)

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A little bit on Business (Cont.) The Voice

Humans develop smiles as a way to deflect predators in the wild and former bosses in the grocery store! (Deal for a dentist!)

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A little bit on Business (Cont.) Started as less than 20 people 48 countries, 98 offices, more than

10000 people in less than 4 years!

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A little bit on Business (Cont.) Wall: “Are you gonna be one of them?!”

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A little bit on Business (Cont.)

I do NOT know! (again please don’t quote me on that! )

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Technical/Engineering side Collaboration becomes harder when a

company grows

Made up of small teams (5-10 people)

Daily Stand up, Weekly meetings, one to one with director of engineering!

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Technical/Engineering side (Cont.) Someone has done it already & can help

you!

Agile/XP/Scrum/etc. What works the best (Inspect & Adapt all you need)

Code Quality matters A LOT!

Design discussion & consider alternatives

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Technical/Engineering side (Cont.) Be open to change (Don’t be defensive

about your code!!!)

Automated Testing on Different Levels Continuous Refactoring (Boy scout rule)

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Technical/Engineering Side (Cont.)

Big open source community!

Pull Requests are more than welcome

Help to make things better EVERY where!

Don’t re-invent the wheel either use it or improve it!

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Technical/Engineering Side (Cont.) Fast feedback

Trial and error! There is NO ONE answer

Do a quick and simple thing, LEARN from it

Could save millions of dollars!!!

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Technical/Engineering Side (Cont.) Self-Growth Book Clubs Clojure Lunch

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Technical/Engineering Side (Cont.)

Pairing on Side-Projects for deliberate practicing

Hackathon

GeekOn (Bit Coin payments)

Going to Conferences couple times a year

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Automated Merchandising

Page Real-Estate

Widget Development Platform

Auction, bidding system

Experimentation Framework

Learn from and make sense out of data

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Preaching/Advice

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In place to preach am not!

Collection of interesting advice from professionals and passionate people in software development and programming!

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What you’re interested in and mostly passionate about FIND!

It just your work is NOT!

It all your time, nights and weekends TAKES!

If you’re a pure tech person and that’s what you’re enjoying then THAT’S IT!

Based on your perspective CHOOSE!

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Value a business solely on their share price NEVER!

Continuously read/practice/improve

Get out of your comfort zone (So many possibilities out there)

a better knowledge and understanding of what’s going on under the hood HAVE!

Learn things for career’s sake do NOT!

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“An expert is a man who made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow filed!” – Niels Bohr

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More info/links 18 things to know about your genes

Groupon Public Facts

Interview with Andrew Mason in 60 minutes!

Summer Internship at Groupon

One on One by Doc Norton

Contact/info Links: https://github.com/Sam-Serpoosh https://twitter.com/masihjesus https://masihjesus.wordpress.com https://linkedin.com/in/samserpoosh

[email protected]


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