Okay for a while, if you live in Vermont. - Senior Marketing Manager Cox Automotive Employee Review

3.0
Mar 9, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible PTO - if you don’t mind not getting bonuses in the months you take it. Good health insurance. Reasonable work/life balance.

Cons

Don’t expect to get promoted unless you live in Burlington, VT, want to move to BVT, are best friends with someone in BVT, or are buddy buddy with people at HQ in Atalanta. Good luck getting anyone in BVT to give you the time of day if you don’t live there-they may complain loudly and be where DDC started but they definitely have an elitist mentality up there. I was overlooked multiple times for career advancement simply because I did not live in Vermont. It didn’t matter I had the advanced degree or skills a job required, my physical location automatically excluded me, regardless of the fact most of the company’s clients are NOT in Vermont.... Level set pay in 2019 & 2020 for people who had years of experience with those that had zero experience. Hardly any room for career advancement. So if you’re okay with staying at the level you come in at, great. Not really “cutting edge” so much as hiring best friends and family members. Average to below average pay for tenure comparatively. Very much a “yes man” mentality - which is odd since technology should help drive market disruptions to improve reach. If you have to ideas to improve but aren’t a “yes man” expect an uphill battle.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jun 26, 2026
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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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