Sinking ship - Anonymous employee Auction.com Employee Review

2.0
May 25, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Nothing special. I’m from engineering team and can only talk about that. Pretty standard : 1/2/3 day lunches Stocked cafeteria Unlimited PTO

Cons

List is long but I’ll ty to summarize it: 1. No room for growth individually or for company. Auction was acquired by THL and is on downward spiral since then. Only hope is if company get re acquired by some bigger P.E. 2. If people always thought why P.Es are bad, this is the textbook example. Mass exodus, PE taking 100% profit, average raise of 2% when company profit is healthy. The margin of profit is really high. 3. Tech stack wise not much of going on except AWS to cut cost , repackage it and sell it. Actual tech stack which runs auction is a joke. Lots of manual process is needed to run the company and auctions. 4. Layers of executives and managers mostly good for nothing. I’ve not seen such small sized company having 2 CTO’s. 5. Team morale is all time down and people are jumping left and right. You don’t want to join where there is no culture or morale. 6. HR team is trying their best to understand and fix the culture but too late to do anything.

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5.0
Jan 7, 2026
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Pros

Very flexible and fun environment. The pay is great and they offer a lot of support and training.

Cons

Mostly part time hours available so no health benefits, etc and recently several employees were laid off.

4.0
Mar 31, 2026
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Pros

Great company, always growing and implementing new ideas to make the company better. Very receptive to feedback.

Cons

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