Too many management layers - Anonymous employee Autotrader Employee Review

3.0
Feb 25, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Company reputation was great (at one time), and they made excellent efforts to bring salaries in line with industry norms, particularly if employee was underpaid when hired. Decent benefits and individual managers/supervisors were generous when it came to needing personal time off.

Cons

Many changes in management and restructuring in attempts to flatten chain of command only resulted in creating more layers. Too many meetings were required before any project could begin, and then the pressure was on to complete them by original deadlines. Often, when the approval was finally given and all parties signed off, the need at the customer level was no longer urgent -- or -- business priorities changed and the project was dropped completely.

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