Horrible Engineering team in Dallas! - Senior Engineer Cox Automotive Employee Review

1.0
7 Aug 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The company is highly laid back and has a culture of slacking. This may be good for some people. If you are a slacker and want to sit in Agile meetings (backlog grooming) all day, this is the best company for you.

Cons

I joined the engineering team in Dallas. I left in 6 months because of following reasons * Very bad projects. They give all the good projects to Vermont (Dealer.com) and pass on the left over work to Dallas. * Dallas employees are used like Contractors. * They lie about the projects and technology during the interview process. They don't respect the skillset of the employee. I was interviewed in Scala and then given projects related to Groovy and HTML. * The organization is highly bureaucratic . In the name of Agile, they have days and days of meetings. This gives managers ample of opportunities to spread red tape and politics. My previous organization was waterfall and guess what... they had far lesser meetings than this company. * The environment is very political and employees are not given the right set of opportunities (specially if you work in Dallas). The employees in Vermont always have an upper hand in grabbing most opportunities. * Managers are constantly interfering in the daily life of engineers. Playing politics and games to further their own agenda. * Most managers in Dallas have no real power and are just proxies to the management in Vermont. * All the powerful high positions were taken by employees of Dealer.com and they call all the shots.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Benefits are good. PTO Day 1.

Cons

No advancement opportunity. They claim they hire internally, but they don't seem to adhere to that. Out of nowhere, hours were cut from 40 hours to 32 for our particular shift due to "business needs". However it seems like we are rarely caught up at the end of the night. The same position on another shift did not lose nearly as many hours. Then, there was a location wide meeting where they bragged about record sales and record profits. Seems pretty insensitive to do in front of employees who lost over 20% of their pay. The manager comes off as completely harsh and rude. When you fill out a survey stating facts, they are met with a dismissive tone followed by, "you know this is not true". Training is non existent. Other underpaid employees have to train you so it's like a game of telephone where the training contains just a little less information or a little more incorrect information each time. Pay for other positions in the organization is below average. When applying for those positions internally, they want to base pay on your current role instead of based on qualifications for the job being offered. There is a pay range listed for jobs, don't expect to get anywhere near the top and you are LUCKY to see the middle of that range. Pay raises are not anywhere near inflation rates, so if you stay more than a year you are losing money.

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