Good company if you like picnics and ice cream socials - Anonymous employee Autotrader Employee Review

3.0
May 21, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

AutoTrader is part of the COX family and has amazing benefits as a result. Pay is fair based on industry and geographic averages. They throw lots of parties, have plenty of prizes to give away, and are pretty flexible when it comes to work/life balance.

Cons

They have meetings to plan meetings and Managers attend these meetings to appear as if they are hard at work. Systems & Reporting were (when I was there) a joke. To be fair, this was probably as a result of the accelerated growth of the company.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Sep 12, 2025
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Pros

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Cons

Current leadership over AutoTrader (CAI) prioritizes profits over all else so we have reorganizations every year or so making it an unstable environment. The company is now run by Finance and HR, so you can imagine the culture.

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