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).

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468 reviews
2.0
Feb 4, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good pay, good benefits, good bonuses, some of the people are great.

Cons

Senior management can't stay focused on one thing to save their life. They only continue on because they dominate the niche based on being in the space early but heaven help them if they have to be efficient. Politics dominate and the President likes taking care of his buds. Work pace is psycho and alot of good work just gets wasted because someone decides to go a different direction.

5.0
Feb 3, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Awesome new offices w/on-site cafe with "food court" type atmosphere partially subsidised by Auto Trader.com (breakfast and lunch) Incredible "Employee Floor" complete with "electric orange" breakroom (plus regular breakrooms on every floor), PlayStation, Wii, satellite TVs (6), pool and foosball tables, "Mother's Room" for nursing moms complete w/refridgerators and private nursing rooms and restroom Building an on-site state of the art fitness center Extrememly supportive of company (paid time off) community service events Often times present employees with "spot bonuses" typically $100 - $500 for jobs extremely well done or really tough assignments - basically for going above and beyond the call of duty Many employees (especially in IT) work virtually at least one day a week (team members decide among each other who is WFH on which days). This is the first place I've worked where I don't "feel bad" for WFH...or that people think the person who is WFH is goofing around and not getting any work done. Without exception (on my team anyway), when somebody is WFH, they are responsive (typically through IM) and productive.

Cons

Not much in the way of progression/succession planning. Especially if you're in IT, there's not much in the way of learning about other parts of the company should you want to grow your career out of IT.

3.0
Nov 4, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay plan...before it changed---good benefits---flexibility of benefits good---local management very supportive--flexible work schedule--constantly increasing the price of the product to equal our perceived value

Cons

Lack of organizational stability---total moral ineptness of customer base (car dealers)--very shady regional leadership (at the time) changes have been made since then

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