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
Mar 15, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits, company vehicle, work from home, decent pay in small market.

Cons

Unrealistic expectations, over priced and not delivering the value that dealers want. Continue to ram stats down dealers throats rather than finding the happy medium between what the dealer wants and what the consumer wants. Pay plan changes annually, sometimes semi-annually and usually for the worse. Environment of fear and retaliation.

1.0
Oct 1, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work from home model was great.

Cons

So many management changes from VP to Director has produced a flood of no name, unproven people moving into key leadership roles (The good'old boy network is alive and well!)....These same people are making reckless, wholesale personnel changes...throwing the baby out with the bathwater... Countless, tenured employees are being dismissed with little to zero reasoning or explanations. Simply put, upper management is changing up personnel because AutoTrader is going backwards in revenue growth and they place the blame on the field instead of taking a look in the mirror. As a former, long time employee I can say that there were many years when corporate was in touch with the field level...this is no longer the case. Its good old boy empire building time at AutoTrader and the sales peoples sense of security is at an all time low. Its just a job now versus the former excitement of building a career.

1.0
May 25, 2017

What Happened ATC

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Co workers assist each other with the day to day issues. Always working together to make the team succeed.

Cons

extremely stressful, no longer rewarding, you are micro managed daily.a lot of employees today say it can be called the plantation of today. Many people are trying to get out by moving to another company or taking leave due to stress. No movement for seasoned extremely knowledgeable employees. Employees are no longer part of the equation. It is all about the mighty $$.

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