Cox Automotive reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(2,317 total reviews)
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Steve Rowley

79% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Cox Automotive has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 2,317 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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4.0
Jan 10, 2017
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Pros

For the rank and file, you can't beat the benefits, the work from home policies, the work-life balance, or the overall empathy of leadership within the IT organization. This is not a company that puts developers into a boiler room and expects them to work 60+ hours a week. Hard work is expected and rewarded, but crazy heroics are not usually expected unless something is metaphorically on fire. The culture encourages collaboration, experimentation and innovation in the day-to-day.

Cons

The engineering culture is pretty weird; while the delivery model is agile, there is still quite a bit of top-down control and not a lot of ownership from teams, which has the effect you might expect on teams' sense of ownership of their product and ownership of quality. Quite a bit of churn in upper management ranks, and possibly the poorest change management / communication I've ever seen in 20 years in the industry. This is also a company that values the hands-on tactical far more than the strategic - very focused on getting stuff out the door, but not nearly enough focus on what the right things might actually be. Coding skills are valued above all else - if you're not a coder, you won't progress, and the organization has a hard time recognizing and handling 'people issues' and process issues. Until leadership gets a more balanced view of what's important and who their stakeholders are, things are going to stay weird.

5.0
Dec 29, 2016

Great Company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

PTO - recently increased! Great people (working with sales)! Some good training opportunities

Cons

Unreasonable sales/revenue goals have brought moral down. TONS of change while trying to overcome unrealistic sales goals

5.0
Dec 27, 2016

Great company to work for

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Pros

I have been working for Cox Automotive for 10 years and this is one of the best companies I have worked for. They have excellent benefits and a great recognition program.

Cons

The work/life could be improved. The amount of vacation time is great however because of being short-staffed at the location we don't get to use all the vacation time and still get all the vehicles set for the auction.

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