Pros
I had a birthday in my first month...the Sam(COO) reaches out and wishes a happy birthday. I’m like “okay, really cool gesture, probably got a workday notification or something about it”. The next day, Sam finds me at my desk and asks me how my birthday was, what I did, etc. I had been there a month, 1 of like 900 employees.
The #1 pro of CarGurus is the care they have for each and every employee.
Others:
-Autonomy: You’re treated like an adult. You can run your day to day how you please as long as your hitting your numbers and doing right by your clients
-Team: Everyone’s a team player, willing to help out making calls, let you shadow, role play with you, teach you what they know, etc. You’re constantly surrounded by smart, driven people.
-Perks: Lunch every day, massively stocked kitchen, gym membership, T or parking Pass, 401k match, RSUs, headspace subscription, just to name a few. CarGurus spares no expense taking care of their employees
-Training: holy cow, they really take the time to make sure you thoroughly understand the products and continue to build on your knowledge base.
-Not just a sales role: CarGurus believes in building real relationships with your clients and making sure you’re putting them in the right products. Be a consultant over being a boiler room salesman.
Cons
-Office location is a bit out of the way, being in between two T stops across the river in Cambridge
-Wiki is helpful, but there is still a lot of internal knowledge among employees that you have to ask someone to get
-Not a ton of cross department mingling
