Fantastic benefits/employee focus, constant change with no good strategy for execution - Anonymous employee Autotrader Employee Review

3.0
Jul 6, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Fantastic benefit packages Work/life balance highly encouraged Lots of development training Senior leadership focus on employee surveys and feedback

Cons

Little direction by management which leads to poor execution and more chaos for employees mid-level and below Little reliance on expertise and knowledge of lower level employees No clear expectations and/or changing responsibilities due to constant operational change Doing too much at once, no priorities, constant firedrills

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