Proceed with caution - Inside Sales Representative Cox Automotive Employee Review

2.0
Jan 18, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

• A few coworkers were supportive and helpful. • The work itself can be interesting, depending on the team.

Cons

Management communication is inconsistent and unclear, making expectations difficult to meet. • Support is minimal or nonexistent: despite asking multiple times for help with workload, requests were ignored. • Micromanagement is extreme, and goals are often nearly impossible to reach. If you hit a goal or exceed it one month, management raises it the next month to an even less attainable level, creating constant stress. • I had a baby the year I was fired and took the company-provided parental leave, yet I felt unfairly targeted and pressured upon returning. • I was let go on December 22nd, right before the holidays, with no sensitivity to timing or circumstance. • After I left, my responsibilities were reassigned as a “two-person territory” that I had been handling alone, yet management expected it to be managed solo. Any requests for help were dismissed with “everyone else does just fine,” even though the workload was unreasonable. You get told when you move up it’s a promotion yet no pay increase at all just that it’s a “promotion” you also need to apply to such jobs and interview for them instead of your work ethic showing that you would be a good candidate. If the manager hiring doesn’t like you or a friend of theirs doesn’t good luck landing that job.

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5.0
May 7, 2026
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Pros

Great work life balance, unlimited pto

Cons

No real concept of a promotion. All mobility is done through application and interviewing.

1.0
Jun 26, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are good. PTO Day 1.

Cons

No advancement opportunity. They claim they hire internally, but they don't seem to adhere to that. Out of nowhere, hours were cut from 40 hours to 32 for our particular shift due to "business needs". However it seems like we are rarely caught up at the end of the night. The same position on another shift did not lose nearly as many hours. Then, there was a location wide meeting where they bragged about record sales and record profits. Seems pretty insensitive to do in front of employees who lost over 20% of their pay. The manager comes off as completely harsh and rude. When you fill out a survey stating facts, they are met with a dismissive tone followed by, "you know this is not true". Training is non existent. Other underpaid employees have to train you so it's like a game of telephone where the training contains just a little less information or a little more incorrect information each time. Pay for other positions in the organization is below average. When applying for those positions internally, they want to base pay on your current role instead of based on qualifications for the job being offered. There is a pay range listed for jobs, don't expect to get anywhere near the top and you are LUCKY to see the middle of that range. Pay raises are not anywhere near inflation rates, so if you stay more than a year you are losing money.

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