Edmunds.com reviews

4.2

90% would recommend to a friend

(413 total reviews)
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Seth Berkowitz

94% approve of CEO

78% positive business outlook

Edmunds.com has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 413 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Edmunds.com employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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413 reviews
2.0
Jul 10, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible work schedule, unlimited time-off, plenty of paid holidays, some talented people to work with

Cons

No career development, bright engineers stuck working on mundane work, no direction, some incompetent managers, poor compensation, top heavy

3.0
Jun 18, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

ROWE (results only work environment). As long as the work gets done, it doesn't matter how many hours you work or where you work from (in theory). Fresh fruit every morning, cereal on Monday mornings, bagels on Friday mornings, some catered lunches. Good opportunity to work with cutting edge technology (depending on your role).

Cons

As an employee moves further along in tenure they are demanded to take on additional projects, work, and in person meetings, which actually ends up in longer hours spent and increasingly stressful expectations. You must be a "yes man" and expect to take on anything that comes your way. I became a yes man, played by the rules, took on additional projects and completed numerous high level assignments and even presented to executive management and when a promotional opportunity to Sr. Analyst role came up within my team which I clearly deserved, the job posting was put up without even having a conversation with me. I was extremely dedicated to Edmunds, played a lead role in developing our dealer performance tool, performed equivalent if not better quality work of Managers and Sr. Manager's of Analytics & Development yet although I was told that I and my work was valued by the team, the actions didn't follow the words. Edmunds seems to be having an identity crisis. The company built its reputation as a great resource for consumers to find information and reviews about vehicles. Over the past couple years, the company has cheapened itself to more of an advertising/car buying oriented website and drastic organizational changes are made hastily every few months to try to compete with pure automotive buying/selling websites such as TrueCar. Be aware of favoritism and HEAVY politics.

2.0
Jun 12, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great Santa Monica location, decent benefits, some intelligent underpaid middle managers that were fun to work with.

Cons

Far lower than average dot.com pay, ancient owner that is still living in a 70's/80's billboard state of mind influencing both the CEO (son) and COO (family consigliere), little understanding of why competitors are winning on a better value proposition and little action taken to rectify the situation, half baked initiatives that are incompetently pushed through by anointed (kiss ups not merit earned) senior management merely trying to justify their existence and even for them medicore pay. Edmunds reliance on pure A/B website metrics without taking into account simple exogenous variables such as competitor moves, natural weather disasters, regional sales trends was appallingly blind.

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