Lithia & Driveway reviews

Terrible management; emphasis is on the company, not the employee. No compassion. The pay is WAY below market or what is deserved for the work performed. Don't be fooled by the fancy building, the cool culture, or the Fortune 500 status; you are not treated like a Fortune 500 employee. The company runs on recent graduates who don't know any better and don't last because of the stress and lack of pay. The department also runs understaffed deliberately. These are cost saving techniques to maintain their lean overhead and low profit margin. The health benefits package is wildly expensive, especially if you have dependents. Accountants are required to work many additional hours with no overtime pay. Many employees stay at work past 10:00 pm regularly. Managers and Supervisors are manipulative, cold, and miserable themselves. It seems to be a trickle-down effect from the CFO and/or Comptroller. Supervisors and managers possess no personal or managerial skills. Only technical. The company experiences extreme turnover due to harsh work environments., putting more strain on existing employees. Either the executive team makes acquisition decisions without considering the impact on the accounting department's workload, or the Comptroller shields the executive team from the reality. The end result is excessively overworked employees. This place will kill your soul.

See the headline. It appeared that management decided once they had a basic functioning web app to layoff 1/2 of Driveway thinking they were no longer needed and now they just need to maintain it. Seemed like business people making money-driven decisions thinking a basic web-app is enough without needing a sophisticated search engine, mobile apps, robust navigation, and all the other features provided by e-commerce leaders. Lithia leadership when it comes down to it are still just a bunch of car-dealers without no understanding of tech innovation and keeping the talent needed that can create that innovation. They're all about short-term thinking.