Was once a giant. No more! - Sales Consultant Autotrader Employee Review

2.0
Jul 7, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are great products in their core business (Used Car Advertising). Pay can be very good in Sales. There are many very good employees and managers. Recovering from a reputation of greed with customers by concentrating on service and holding the line on rate increases.

Cons

Rather than concentrate on their core business and ways to improve it and increase revenues there, they concentrate on moving into new areas where they seemed destined to fail (every time). Very political structure within the overly extensive middle management ranks. There is a whole lot of CYA going on. Butt kissing is valued more than ideas and dissent is not tolerated.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

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Cons

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