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      Autotrader

      Part of Cox Automotive

      Engaged Employer

      Autotrader reviews

      3.4

      59% would recommend to a friend

      (468 total reviews)

      Sandy Schwartz

      66% approve of CEO

      44% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      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
      1.0
      Dec 10, 2014

      Culture changing for the worse

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Pay, nice facilities, great gym on site

      Cons

      No work life balance. Everyone is overloaded with work. Want you to be available all hours of the day. Stress is latest mode of operation. There has pretty much been a full regime change. New leaders are scattered, have their own selfish agendas and treat employees like slaves. Career growth is nonexistent. Change is constant confusing and disruptive

      3.0
      Mar 6, 2014

      Boiler Room

      Advertising consultant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Work from home, payed well in the past.

      Cons

      Core product is sold out. Now selling the rickety product sets which leads to many cancelations. Which means no paycheck.

      4.0
      Dec 9, 2013

      Fast-paced Dotcom / advertising company

      Senior project manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      At least for awhile this was a tremendously fast growing Dotcom company with tremendous opportunity. The company is owned by Cox Enterprises, and more recently, Private Equity has taken a stake. Most of the early explosive growth has slowed, and the company is now operating as a more mature and more slowing growing company. If you enjoy working on interactive and website projects, it can be a fairly innovative environment with some rewarding and challenging projects. They do invest in training, and they developed a pretty robust in-house training curriculum.

      Cons

      Some departments are much better than others. Although it's a technology company, it's driven by advertising. Most of the best opportunities are lavished on Marketing and Sales. It can be a great place if you're in one of those departments. Other groups often donn't get the same respect, to include IT, the PMO, Operations, etc. Several departments to include IT and the PMO have had a tremendous amount of turnover. Directors, in particular, seemed to last about 6 months in a role, before they were replaced. Also, I witnessed the company let go a number of talented and seasoned individuals while bringing in a wave of new hires. A lot of this activity seemed to be focused on cost cutting and reducing veterans while the company attempted to prepare for an IPO that never materialized.

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