TrueCar reviews

Make a cocktail, if you will, that is 1/3 "The Office", 1/3 what the LA Tech scene looked like in 2008, and 1/3 the hubris and stupidity of the Trump White House. Lazily shake with the skills of an incompetent local Santa Monica bartender, and viola - you have Truecar. - Worst executive leadership I have ever seen, where arrogance meets failure - Somewhat "worrisome" mismanagement (google "TrueCar insider sales lawsuit" and form your own damn conclusions about a now $5 stock) - Pointless, declining business model that will get wiped out (mercifully) in the next recession (current business strategy: we don't actually get you anywhere near lowest price, we make car dealers haggle with you, our website sucks... but hey, we have commercials with a pervy-looking dude with a beard and old people use TrueCar to buy Dodge Trucks at Sam's Club). - Culture of morons and unaccomplished managers firing people for personal reasons - Culture of idiotic executives who should have been thrown on their arses long ago for making a bad company worse - Astonishingly bad tech stack and capabilities that defy Moore's Law and get worse over time - Culture; notice how a slew of generic "we love it here" 5-star reviews popped up early this year? There is a string of anonymous gmail accounts somewhere crying for their daddy. I'm here to keep it real, baby. - HR; its like living in 1930s Soviet Union. People just get fired at random here, usually on the advice of less competent managers looking for scapegoats. Take that chain all the way upstairs, but stop short of the CEO, who is at best inert. - HR; when you are done dishing out millions for executive stock options, feel free to lay-off your tech people in mass waves. Who needs that stuff anyways?

Upper management is like Dei ex machina (Gods from a machine); there's no telling how you might offend them. Turns out I offended one of them by rejecting someone for a writing position that said upper manager had been um...er...intimate with. Silly me, thinking I'd had a mandate to actually hire quality people. The final straw was getting replaced by another one of upper management's siblings. Yes, sibling. Unethical, yes. But apparently not illegal.