Autotrader reviews

3.4

59% would recommend to a friend

(468 total reviews)

Sandy Schwartz

66% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Autotrader has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 468 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Autotrader employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

Reviews by job title

468 reviews
2.0
Sep 30, 2015

Account Manager/Sales

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great annual event and the training department are top notch

Cons

Everything else. Management has changed and with the change the moral and culture of a once great company has gone down the tubes.

3.0
Sep 29, 2015

Manager

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Autotrader/Cox Automotive provides great online advertising products for automotive dealers. Cox Automotive Group is active through development and acquisition in aligning stellar category leaders of products and processes to the industry. Excellent compensation and benefit package.

Cons

Extreme turnover from the top down. Unfortunate "good 'ol boys" culture and merit is not assigned to the right person for the position. Unqualified hiring is determined by relationship rather than skill even in critical leadership positions. Hurtful short and long term for Autotrader.

3.0
Sep 8, 2015

Started out a golden company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fast-paced, entrepreneurial culture, energetic, great reputation

Cons

The pros faded as the company became more involved with the parent company. Now it's a corporate machine, similar to the environment in the book/movie "The Firm" - everyone keeps telling you how great it is and how lucky you are to be there, but you know deep down something is really wrong. Too much politics, too many business decisions made based on who is liked and protecting the good 'ol boy culture. Yes, the salaries and benefits are good, but we need to stop praising companies for something that should be anyway.

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