The greatest ability is ACCOUNTABILITY - Mitarbeiter (anonym) bei Cars.com: Mitarbeiterbewertung

3.0
17. Jan. 2018
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Pros

The new office is nice and a huge upgrade from the last place. Benefits are on par with others in the area, nothing special though. It’s a good place to start your career.

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The PXT (People Experience Team/Human Resources) team is one of the worst in Chicago. The so-called Business Partners will only correspond with Directors and above while avoiding everyone else. What kind of HR team does not want to talk with people? Furthermore, confidential information is leaked all the time and when you bring this up they state an investigation into this matter is a lot of work. The Operations (call center, fulfillment, account management, etc..) department has been blown up and turn it into a support sales ONLY model to drive revenue. 
 Many of the Product owners have no experience and as a result we’re making silly mistakes that cost the company revenue on a daily basis. Cars has no active CTO which is vital for an origination this size and it’s clear that Tech’s only function is to support Product maybe that’s why most tech staff is leaving at a record pace. 
 Sales controls the company and are untouchable! Most of the sales departments have no respect for others in the company and will manipulate anyone to get what they want to hit personal goals. In addition, we have roll-out plans for products that calls for sales to pitch a certain number of units and yet reps will not do it. Are you telling me there is not a single customer in your area that might be interested in a new product to help them? Even a "no" would help us drive change. Leadership has not communicated an action plan around these Glassdoor reviews in years so it seems the strategy is to just avoid it and hope they go away. The CEO recently got many of us together in the lunchroom to talk about the issues with the company and a few old school employees at my table were not interested which was disappointing….maybe that is why nothing ever changes! Also if your tight with the CEO or CRO your untouchable no matter your performance
. The employee review process changes every quarter and your manager is suppose to have a conversation with you each month to talk about your performance, yet the majority of managers do not including VP’s and CET (Cars Executive Team). Compensation is not close to market or based on experience regardless what HR says. The culture is different depending on what floor you work on which is sad for such a small organization. 



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Thank you for sharing your extensive feedback on the areas in which we missed delivering a great experience for you. The feedback you shared in your review is not taken lightly. After 19 years of being a part of another company, we spun off into an independent, publicly traded company last year and it was a big step forward that required a lot of change. Some of that change was more seamless than others and we are doing our best to be patient as we all learn, grow and adjust to our new normal. Compensation and benefits are always top of mind for us as talent is in high demand in this competitive industry. We are always working to improve our already generous benefits packages to make sure our employees feel empowered, appreciated, and have the healthy work/life balance they deserve. Thanks to feedback like yours, we will continue to get better and learn.

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