Cox Enterprises Reviews

Pros

work/life balance, emphasis on employees, people are happy. Benefits of long-term employment

Cons

Many of their business are mature or fading, lots of ongoing restructuring and cuts

Advice to Senior Management

I think they are doing the best job possible considering the industries they are in

Pros

Private, well capitalized and stable.

Cons

Very cliquish, slow to change.

Advice to Senior Management

Fewer meetings that lead to other meetings whack lead to inaction that results in missed market opportunity.

Pros

Overall, good solid company and benefits. The product, kudzu.com, is actually an effective local search tool for businesses, which is rare.

Cons

Little to no vision about how to turn a local product into a national one. Lots of money spent on a national TV partnership with next to nothing commensurate online. It's upsetting because they had to let go of a lot of good people this year because the sales just didn't happen.

Advice to Senior Management

Bring someone in with a solid vision and proven strategy who knows how to implement it.

Pros

Number 1 station in Orlando market, great on resume, great place to learn.

Cons

Co-workers thrives on GOSSIP, work schedule always changes with out notice.

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

The overall Benefits package is fairly good, and the amount of vacation accrued for time worked is very good (144 hours after 1 year of full time)

Cons

Since I started working here 4 years ago, The amount of work that has been placed on the Security department has more than quadrupled, they've eliminated 2 other departments and given their work load to Security. This wouldn't be a problem if we didn't have corporate managers yelling at us to perfectly perform jobs that we were never actually trained to do in any way. In the last 4 months they've the department back so badly that of the 400 or so hours that the security officers have left of vacation we can't afford to take any of it, because we don't have the personnel to cover all the shifts.
The upper management routinely makes "cutbacks" and changes to operations with no thought or care as to how much more difficult it makes our jobs. This year we didn't receive cost of living increases, yet the auction had plenty of money to install several new fences and shiny new signs for all the buildings.

Advice to Senior Management

stop screwing your employees so badly that they don't want to work here anymore. don't tell them money is so tight that you can't afford raises and then spend loads of money on a new gate for a spot that never had one, signs denoting what each building is, and signs for fence posts saying what area of the lot you happen to be in

Pros

Benefits, work eviroment, decent wages

Cons

Hours of work, not much to grow

Advice to Senior Management

to much micro management

Pros

good salary and benefits.
reasinably good i\opportunities for growth

Cons

too much work at times.
Career advancement may be slow due to fixed hierarchy.

Advice to Senior Management

Peoples career goals need to be taken into account.

Pros

Good pay. Hours are fine. The brand is strong

Cons

Management does not do a good job of "leading by example" They would rather go on the perfect sales call than really see the big picture how tough it is out there

Advice to Senior Management

GET your head out of the sand and roll up your sleeves once in a while

Pros

Good benefits. Overall good vision.

Cons

Inconsistent management. Decisions are very political.

Advice to Senior Management

Make the changes necessary within the various business units to drive to a true, consistent financial result, even within the pro-forma businesses.

Pros

Benefits, 401-K plan that matches 100%, Compensation is fair, and commissions are generous

Cons

Limited opportunities for Women to become Managers

Advice to Senior Management

Develop a mentoring program for new hires