AutoTrader Reviews

Pros

Decent money, Autonomy, good training, can be fun

Cons

Constant change, culture of fear, stress, pressure

Advice to Senior Management

Treat the sales force as what it is, your bread and butter. The continuous change and adjustments creates so much uncertainty that your "career" quickly turns into a job you don't feel confident in having from month to month.

Pros

Great place to work if you have car business experience or best is if you have outside ad sales where you sold a lot of dealers.

Cons

They ride you strong and hard.

Advice to Senior Management

When you hire an workaholic sales rep as a sales manager don't expect the reps they manage be like them.

Pros

The company has awesome benefits and recognition

Cons

There were few chances for advancement

Advice to Senior Management

Create career paths for all employees

Pros

nice building, nice benifits, nice people

Cons

growing too fast with no real direction

Advice to Senior Management

remember the ones that got you here in the 1st place

Pros

Benefits and perks for employees, ability to move around organization for career development, genuine caring of people from C-Level down

Cons

Experiencing growing pains from success and rapid growth, some people are over worked while others are underutilized

Advice to Senior Management

Ask Senior Directors and their direct staff for constructive feedback to ensure the morale of employees remains high and business objectives are met in an effective manner

Pros

full benefits plus 401k are good, secured, gated parking with security guards but can be a hassle if you misplace your badge; employee appreciation gifts; discounts on new car purchase

Cons

moving on to a new dpt within the company is corporate politics as usual, it is not what you know but who you know and how much butt you kiss. micromanagement at its worst describes the atmosphere

Pros

I've never worked with a more intelligent or group that has this much passion for what they do and it shows in their work and interaction with each other.
The Building is Nice and Shiny..

Cons

So focused on making their "one billion" dollar mark that they don't care what shortcuts they have to take or people that lose along the way

Advice to Senior Management

Go back and use the people you have instead of trying to be cheap and work with less and lesser..

Pros

Lots of growth opportunity. New building is nice.

Cons

Lack of coordination between groups. Growth was not managed at the beginning so the infrastructure did not keep pace.

Pros

Great pay and work life balance

Cons

Unclear future direction and communication

Advice to Senior Management

Communication and listen to your people

Pros

good comp plan and benefits, good people all around, interesting and challenging work

Cons

some execs not big on promotions and recognition, have attitude that employees are lucky to have a job, very different cultures between departments and not a lot of collaboration between some of the execs, the newer crop of exec leadership in PM, Sales and Ops seems to be more innovative than the older execs (who may be waiting to cash in on their stock and don't want to make risky moves in fear of tipping the cash cow)

Advice to Senior Management

empower the next generation of leaders to take this company forward to where it needs to be, also don't dismiss search, free classifieds and ad networks as not being real threats.