It's all smoke and mirrors - Anonymous employee Cox Automotive Employee Review

2.0
Aug 23, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits. If you can stand it long enough you may be able to transfer to another Cox entity. They give away lots of random things while cutting people's jobs.

Cons

Where do you start??? Constant reorganizations like you've never seen. I'm telling you like every 3-4 months (and that's being generous). What you think that you are starting with most definitely won't be where you end up or what you are doing or who you are working for in the next 6 months. A huge company that is run on cliques and who you know. To get anything actually done, you have to have agreement from probably 10 people who will have various levels of passive aggressive bitterness and interest in not wanting you to succeed. If you actually do produce anything, everyone will hate you for showing them up and will take credit for your work as part of the "matrix" or just deny that you actually did anything at all. Which means that you either have to play their game and not really ever produce anything but a flashy power point describing some fantastic thing that you are planning for 2 years from now (and will never do - just keep pushing out the date and blaming reorganizations), or just get nothing done and "not perform". HR is embedded in everything...yes, day to day processes. That should tell you something. I've never seen anything like this place. 100x's over not what it is sold as.

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Cons

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