Pros
Full disclosure - after plying everyone with free lunch several months ago, HR prodded everyone to come to glassdoor and write glowing, positive reviews to help us attract talent in the ridiculously competitive tech scene. Keep that in mind before drinking in all the kool-aid. Salaries are very high. Benefits are good. Location is by the beach in downtown santa monica. If that's all you care about, then TrueCar is the company for you!
Cons
Where to begin. The recruiting team is the pits. The only decent candidates we interview in tech and product come from internal referrals, everyone the recruiters bring us is garbage. Someone decided it was a good idea to let the senior management that ran our main competitor into the ground come run tech and product. You can imagine how well that's going. Morale is extremely low, turnover is growing and there are lots of people looking to leave, it's depressing. TrueCar spent all of this time and money creating a new intern program and recruiting for it from a bunch of fancy universities, and most of us are expecting it to fail big time. If managers can't even effectively manage their current teams, most of us are confused about how they're going to also properly guide and mentor these interns. There seems to be a fundamental disconnect of vision and execution between the senior management, lower level people are starting to notice and it's not being received well. Overall communication between departments is poor, and doesn't look to improve any time soon. Entitlement and narcissism seems to be prevalent at the upper levels.
