Q&A With Edmunds.com Employees

open office - no one has an office

its Bipolar - the company is having issues with growing revenue and that creates a micromanaging culture where c-suite/outside consultants take over projects. Those are the same people that made poor decisions in the past. Some teams that are run more autonomously are fun with good people and able to create meaningful results.

I'm ambivalent. Management is finally making good decisions about the website, the user experience and committing to a worthwhile mission, but killing ROWE (where employees could work whenever, wherever) without replacing it with an actual vacation time policy is kinda the worst of both worlds, and I think it's likely to lead to some turnover, and it makes Edmunds a tougher sell for prospective talent.

To a person, they're really personable and knowledgable.

It's really good on the tech side. A homework assignment along with a half day in-person interview.

I don't know. This is part of our overall communication problem.

The culture is great. I think the one thing I'd improve is getting everyone on board with their key metrics. i.e. inventory sales have metric X, ads have metric Y and have everyone understand how their role contributes to those metrics. EBITDA and other metrics are great for accountants but make most people's eyes glaze over.

It all depends. Some people have great life/work balance and while it is a ROWE culture, that culture can shackle one to their laptop since there is not defined stopping point.

I think most people admire Avi. He's genial and easy going. What might be missing is an inspiring vision for the growth of the company. Part of that is in the industry (cars are at an inflection point), part of that is not understanding how we can take on the larger car shopping space.