Relaxed work environment but LOW pay - Software Engineer Cox Automotive Employee Review

3.0
Jun 19, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Work life balance is top notch, with unlimited paid time off, a culture of closing your laptop at 5pm and taking days off you need to. The people are generally nice and fun to work with.

Cons

They will pay you as little as possible. When I talked to my manager about the pay gap between me (a female) and other (male) engineers he said I should just accept that that's the way it is and it's like that everywhere. Another engineer who is a TOP performer - gave him no chance to be promoted to senior and did not pay him nearly as much as he deserved.

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5.0
Jul 20, 2026
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Pros

Competitive pay, benefits and bonuses.

Cons

It is a great company and as such there exists over communication; however, I’m not sure how they get past “too much” communication.

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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