AutoTrader.com Employee Reviews for Advertising Consultant
Browse AutoTrader.com Reviews by Job Title →Advertising Consultants at AutoTrader.com give their company a 4.1 out of 5.0, while the average rating for AutoTrader.com is 3.9, making them 5% happier than every other employee at AutoTrader.com and 5% happier than every other Advertising Consultant on CareerBliss - the happiest Advertising Consultants work for Idearc Media.
"Awesome, great place to work."
What do you like about working at AutoTrader.com?
"I work from home, manage my own schedule and I get to work in the field seeing customers face to face helping them with advertising solutions that work."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"To be enthusiastic and honest in the application an dinterview process."
What don't you like about working at AutoTrader.com?
"My pay plan seems to adjust downward once the sales reps learn to manage to their pay."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"That it's ok to adjust a pay plan, but, to give a plan time to work before adjusting again. I've worked for AutoTrader for over 4 years and have had 4 pay plans."
Average Advertising Consultant Ratings in the Past 5 Years
| Year | Salary |
|---|---|
| 2010 | $4 |
| 2011 | $4 |
| 2012 | $3 |
| 2014 | $3 |
"AMAZING benefits, good pay, but heavy work load."
What do you like about working at AutoTrader.com?
"Good reputation. Brand recognition. Pays well when you hit your number and your dealers don't cancel. My boss is great but many have been very hard to work for."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Be sure to focus on customer service and relationship sales in your prior history. Much of this job is relationship management, not a business development position."
What don't you like about working at AutoTrader.com?
"You cannot control when a dealer cancels and that hits your over all monthly number/quota. So in other words if you need to sell 2k per month to meet quota, and a dealer cancels for 4k, you now have to sell 6k to make up for that downsell. Also they used to assign a lot of mundane task but have gotten much better. SOOO much training (out of state) and lots of time out of the field for unnecessary reasons. Also the commission is based on a rolling 3 month average. So in one month if you are -3k (from downsells or cancels), then +1k then on the third month +4k , on the third month you are only credited for 66% (not 4k.) so you sometimes get taken advantage of."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Stop the rolling average and stop allowing the company to sell select ads and let your reps do it."
What do you like about working at AutoTrader.com?
"Middle Management was out of focus, need to be more focused on clients."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Make research of their website and enter the HR process."
What don't you like about working at AutoTrader.com?
"Is a company that appears to be aggressive, but their way of doing business was very conservative."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Step out of the plate and let more young, intelligent people run the company."
Average AutoTrader.com Attributes by Advertising Consultant
"I was very happy there, wish they were still in business."
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