No Work/Life Balance - Accounting CARVANA Employee Review

1.0
Oct 10, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Company has a lot of potential. It is an open environment and focuses on "millennial perks". Headquarters has an arcade, beach cruisers to ride during lunch, free snacks, etc.

Cons

I can only share my opinions for the department I work in, but there are a lot of politics. Management is inexperienced, yet extremely adequate at creating a dictatorship environment. Management engagement is nonexistent. It is hard for trust to exist when there is zero communication. When issues do arise they do not hold themselves accountable. They have fostered an “every man for himself” mentality, instead of creating team unity and encouraging collaboration. This has tremendously decreased team morale. What I have observed is an absence of loyalty and lack of support coming from Management. They do not seem to represent what the executives have been trying to promote. Employees on the team do not feel valued and promotions are rare unless you are in Management. Employees are overworked and under-appreciated. There is no work/life balance. For the amount of hours some employees’ work, it would be nice if management would let us have compensatory time off to be with family.

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Pros

* Corporate roles offer flexibility, and no one micromanages how you structure your 8-hour day. * Good holiday schedule and work-life balance if you’re in the right role.

Cons

No clear vision or long-term strategy for the Safe & Secure department. * Constant reorganizations and changing priorities. * Positions eliminated, reinstated, and eliminated again. * No stability or clear career path. * Lack of structure and accountability. * “Blind leading the blind” culture. * Chronic understaffing. * Employees expected to do the work of two or three people. * No additional compensation for increased workload. * Leadership’s answer to resource constraints is to “be scrappy.” * High levels of burnout. * Extremely low morale. * Significant loss of talent and leadership. * Employees quitting without another job lined up due to poor working conditions. * Operations Center dismantled, relocated, and then effectively rebuilt again with no clear strategic reason. * Experienced employees terminated, only to recreate similar functions later. * Loss of institutional knowledge. * Frequent reactive decisions instead of proactive planning. * Constant uncertainty creates stress and uneasiness. * Lack of confidence in leadership direction. * Heavy workload with limited support. * Minimal investment in retaining top performers. * Environment not conducive to building a long-term career.

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