vAuto reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(83 total reviews)
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Derek Hansen

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59% positive business outlook

vAuto has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 83 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The vAuto 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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83 reviews
5.0
Dec 20, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

The company if overflowing with absurdly talented people willing to help, share, and perform at a high level. There's zero "competition"...everyone works well together.

Cons

4:30pm meetings on Fridays that go on for 2 hours!

5.0
Dec 18, 2015

Come for the culture, stay for the snacks.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people. They're choosy about who they hire, because they're not just filling seats to make things happen in the short term. Everyone is committed to not only their projects, but to each other and to the company. It's a family, and everyone works hard to maintain that culture. It's hands down the best environment I've ever worked in. The R&D office in Austin is amazing. I've worked at companies that named their conference rooms after nerdy stuff, but vAuto took it to the next level and designed the entire office around video games. Sit/Stand desks. Top notch hardware. Actual team rooms instead of cubes. A Kuerig, four refrigerators and free juice, soda and la croix in the break room. Snacks. More swag than you'll know what to do with. Food trucks almost every day of the week. Just about every wall in the building is a white board. The tables are either dry erase friendly, or giant post-its. It's a productivity and happiness mecca. They'll invest in YOU. Everyone has room to grow and they are constantly looking and pushing each other to do so. As engineers. As teams. As leaders. As people. In agile. In communication. In collaboration. In technology.

Cons

If you can consider it a 'Con' - everyone cares. About everything. All the time. A lot of the people have been there since the beginning, and they have a hard time letting go; so expect everyone to have concerns and voice their opinions on what your doing...sometimes loudly. But they'll expect the same from you. If you're looking to come in, keep your head down for eight hours and go home, this isn't the company you're looking for. Keeping the code clean is seen as infinitely less important than pushing out new features. As the company has grown, the pressure to do more has as well. Refactoring is typically what falls by the wayside; which is tragic. Automated testing is still mostly just a dream, causing bugs to squeak through and increasing QA bottlenecks.

5.0
Dec 18, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

I have worked for 20 years in the Automotive industry, most of which has been in selling Software as a service to car dealers. I love this industry, and have been associated with some fantastic companies over the years. For the first time in my career, I can honestly say that I am home. I look forward to spending the last 15-20 years of my career with Cox Automotive and vAuto. The opportunities are truly endless, and the forward thinking culture paints a very exciting and bright future for us all.

Cons

With so many business units and the rapid changes that result in mergers and acquisitions, career paths can become very complex. I guess having too many choices is a good problem to have, but it can be overwhelming at times.

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