Cox Automotive reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(2,319 total reviews)
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Steve Rowley

79% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Cox Automotive has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 2,319 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cox Automotive employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Aug 28, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

They gave us four weeks of PTO per year when they acquired our previous company. I am in a distantly remote office that was acquired by Cox two years ago; the things I like about my employment are largely residual from previous ownership.

Cons

The company I worked for was acquired by Cox two years ago, and my team has done okay because we have been largely out of the Cox corporate eye, doing what we are good at, making a lot of revenue for the company. But after two years they decided to shut down a lot of offices, and ours was one of them. My impression of Cox is that it is a family fiefdom rather than a meritocracy. It seemed some high-level decisions were made based on politics, long-time family friendships, and perceived loyalties rather than on business merit. They're an older company and seem to be struggling to bring their technologies and practices into the agile age. But at least they are trying to adjust.

2.0
Aug 23, 2017

It's all smoke and mirrors

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits. If you can stand it long enough you may be able to transfer to another Cox entity. They give away lots of random things while cutting people's jobs.

Cons

Where do you start??? Constant reorganizations like you've never seen. I'm telling you like every 3-4 months (and that's being generous). What you think that you are starting with most definitely won't be where you end up or what you are doing or who you are working for in the next 6 months. A huge company that is run on cliques and who you know. To get anything actually done, you have to have agreement from probably 10 people who will have various levels of passive aggressive bitterness and interest in not wanting you to succeed. If you actually do produce anything, everyone will hate you for showing them up and will take credit for your work as part of the "matrix" or just deny that you actually did anything at all. Which means that you either have to play their game and not really ever produce anything but a flashy power point describing some fantastic thing that you are planning for 2 years from now (and will never do - just keep pushing out the date and blaming reorganizations), or just get nothing done and "not perform". HR is embedded in everything...yes, day to day processes. That should tell you something. I've never seen anything like this place. 100x's over not what it is sold as.

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