No Gold Watches with this company! - District Management Autotrader Employee Review

1.0
Oct 1, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work from home model was great.

Cons

So many management changes from VP to Director has produced a flood of no name, unproven people moving into key leadership roles (The good'old boy network is alive and well!)....These same people are making reckless, wholesale personnel changes...throwing the baby out with the bathwater... Countless, tenured employees are being dismissed with little to zero reasoning or explanations. Simply put, upper management is changing up personnel because AutoTrader is going backwards in revenue growth and they place the blame on the field instead of taking a look in the mirror. As a former, long time employee I can say that there were many years when corporate was in touch with the field level...this is no longer the case. Its good old boy empire building time at AutoTrader and the sales peoples sense of security is at an all time low. Its just a job now versus the former excitement of building a career.

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Cons

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