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
May 10, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

The company is located in the beautiful Santa Monica. The office space and decor is modern. Compensation is fairly paid. It has good 401k, dental and vision benefits. The company promotes promotion from within.

Cons

The company organization structure is like a bank. The number of VPs and Executives in this company can rival a bank. There's a department in Edmunds that illustrates this point perfectly. This department has 5 employee: a Sr VP, an Exec Director, a Mgr, and an administrator. Basically, everyone is a manager and only one person who is doing most of the work. Promoting from within sounds great. However, when an incompetent leader promoted another incompetent leader, the company gets a bunch of incompetent leaders who are now running the company. Good people are leaving, because who would want to report to a supervisor who is incompetent?

1.0
Oct 11, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are good; compensation is a little higher than average; lots of holidays (Columbus Day!?! Earth Day!?!?)

Cons

Bad place to work if you're not in the 'tribe' ... full of people who've been there for years just riding the wave ... everyone else is a minion and is treated as such. Seniority is rewarded more than merit. Suffers from title inflation. If you're a Director here, you're really doing Manager work. Executive Directors are more like Sr. Managers. VPs are more like Directors. That's how they are able to hire and keep folks, especially in this economy -- title & salary inflation. Tons of bloat, churn, busy-body work, overhead, bureaurocracy, ridiculously detailed tracking of even the most mundane tasks, convoluted technical environment(s) that make launching anything quickly and productively nearly impossible. Clings to what the Internet was and how it worked in 1998 ... very slow to embrace new technologies and platforms. If the curtain could be pulled back on this enterprise, competitors would laugh, then shudder in disbelief. Tries to claim to be an "Agile" environment, but really it's just waterfall in sheep's clothing with a lot of busy work attached. The reason people never leave is they are ill equipped to handle a position out of Edmunds. A lot of how Edmunds works is only applicable at Edmunds. You are not marketable after leaving their archaic set-up. Micromanagement at every level -- most bizarre thing I've ever seen.

2.0
Aug 24, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Nice office space. Good benefits.

Cons

Disrespectful towards some employees. Not everybody has opportunity for career advancement.

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