Mandatory OT + Poor Management - Customer Advocate CARVANA Employee Review

2.0
27 Jun 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The company hires mostly great people. The reason I've stuck around so long is because I love my coworkers. The offices are also really nice and they do provide a lot of snacks and drinks.

Cons

- TONS of Mandatory OT. It's now the end of June and we have been required to do mandatory OT since March. It started out as 10 extra hours per week for 2 months. Then they decreased it to 5. Now they are taking away half of our lunch time. They can't properly staff to keep up with growth. - Training has taken a huge plummet in quality. Advocates aren't properly trained any more. - They will force you to move departments without a choice or completely change your responsibilities. - They expect you to take on extra responsibility and tasks in order to show that you want to grow in the company, but they will milk you until you're dry without every getting a promotion or raise. - Management pretends to listen to our concerns, but never apply our feedback to solutions. - The company culture and overall happiness is nonexistent anymore, compared to when I first started. Mandatory OT and drastic, sudden changes have made the majority of the tenured employees here highly unhappy and frustrated. - The company does not know how to staff properly, so on top of forced OT, we are constantly drowning in our workload. People have to stay past business hours on top of their OT to clear call queues and clear case loads. They take from other departments to account for staffing else where, but that impacts the department they took from. It's miserable.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

* Corporate roles offer flexibility, and no one micromanages how you structure your 8-hour day. * Good holiday schedule and work-life balance if you’re in the right role.

Cons

No clear vision or long-term strategy for the Safe & Secure department. * Constant reorganizations and changing priorities. * Positions eliminated, reinstated, and eliminated again. * No stability or clear career path. * Lack of structure and accountability. * “Blind leading the blind” culture. * Chronic understaffing. * Employees expected to do the work of two or three people. * No additional compensation for increased workload. * Leadership’s answer to resource constraints is to “be scrappy.” * High levels of burnout. * Extremely low morale. * Significant loss of talent and leadership. * Employees quitting without another job lined up due to poor working conditions. * Operations Center dismantled, relocated, and then effectively rebuilt again with no clear strategic reason. * Experienced employees terminated, only to recreate similar functions later. * Loss of institutional knowledge. * Frequent reactive decisions instead of proactive planning. * Constant uncertainty creates stress and uneasiness. * Lack of confidence in leadership direction. * Heavy workload with limited support. * Minimal investment in retaining top performers. * Environment not conducive to building a long-term career.

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