The Worst Place to Work in my Entire Career - Anonymous employee CDK Global Employee Review

1.0
Apr 13, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some of my peers were superb and challenged me to do a better job. I liked being able to park and walk to Qwest/Safeco fields for games.

Cons

Management has no clue as to what they are doing. They did not weather the economic downturn in Automotive well. They continued to give the "Rah, Rah" speeches even when their biggest client had to declare bankruptcy. And their quarterly reviews were a joke - their accounting methods were based on fairy tales. And they continued to dangle the line that they were going public. Please, like that will ever happen. There are too many directors and not enough people to get the job done. And in one wave of layoffs - there have been multiple - they laid off a group of people who all were over 40. I cannot say enough to stay away from this company at all costs. You will go in thinking, maybe these opinions are just from "bad apples." But you will find all of this to be true and more.

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Pros

Competitive pay and benefits (if that outweighs a toxic culture for you. My time at CDK has shown me what good leadership does NOT look like.

Cons

Leadership and management culture were the biggest issues. Poor managers are protected and good employees are left carrying the consequences. There is a strong culture of micromanagement, shifting expectations, and documentation over development. Honest feedback wasn't valued and accountability seemed to stop at management. Over time I watched team morale suffer, trust disappearing, and fellow talented employees leaving in sake of their sanity.

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