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RUN! Performative Culture Masking a Deeply Dysfunctional Company - Software Engineer Lithia & Driveway Employee Review

1.0
22 Apr 2025
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Pros

A few kind and competent teammates, most of whom left or were laid off.

Cons

Driveway masquerades as a forward-thinking tech company, but the reality is a toxic, outdated boys’ club where diversity, inclusion, and integrity are nothing more than branding buzzwords. Women were routinely paid less than men, overlooked, and boxed into low-impact work, while less experienced men - including interns - were paid more, promoted more frequently, and praised. Teams of women left after being micromanaged, manipulated, and gaslit by toxic managers and senior devs whose behavior was reported and ignored. Layoffs were cruelly handled, with employees locked out of their systems mid-day with no warning, including people returning from bereavement leave. These cuts weren’t driven by hardship but made during a year of expansion and record profits. In 2023, Lithia Motors CEO Bryan DeBoer gave himself a 73% raise, earning $19.3 million while employee wages declined. That tells you everything you need to know about where priorities lie. PTO was scarce, HR existed to shield leadership, and the product was as outdated and bloated as the culture behind it. Despite the "innovation" branding, the tech stack and internal systems are stagnant.

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5.0
16 June 2026
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Pros

Management, environment, and advancement opportunities

Cons

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1.0
30 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Coworkers are good people, trying to do the best job they can.

Cons

Corporate treats low-level employees terrible. Management has no idea how their employees jobs are done, yet is willing to talk crap to others about their own employees. Corporate makes it clear that corporate employees are replaceable and that they believe anyone can do the ungodly monotonous jobs they create. Expectation is that each employee will do the work of 2-4 employees. Corporate employees are monitored constantly and expected to perform at 150% all day every day. Corporate employees are Not part of the dealership. Corporate employees are not eligible for bonuses, lunches, dinners, overtime or any perk that might ease the pain of being a peasant. Dealership employees regularly receive bonuses, lunches, dinners, overtime, corporate employees do not. Racism and mysoginy are rampant.

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