Pros
Catered lunches three days a week (usually from great places), company-issued MacBooks, and the office is located near Colony Square and Midtown.
Cons
Without question, PureCars is the most unprofessional and chaotic organization I have ever had the displeasure wasting my time at. I would like to think that leadership and their managers/directors know what they’re doing, but that would mean this company is chock-full of underhanded and dishonest people. Otherwise, it means everyone in decision-making roles has no idea what they’re doing, making no effort to improve, and are content to just make it up as they go along. Neither scenario is good for clients or employees. PureCars seems to have an aversion to doing things correctly. This is probably because there is zero accountability for the poorly thought-out and politically motivated decisions leadership's managers/directors make. Instead of thinking things through, managers/directors seem content to screw up then try to fix things and assign blame as they go along. This causes teams to waste tons of time and resources just trying to keep up with their usual day-to-day (although most of the employees I worked with had poor attitudes and promptly left work everyday at 4pm anyways, regardless of what time they came in). It’s madness and no one, and I mean no one, in leadership or management will listen to reason. Anyone who encourages thinking things through or raising concerns before a poorly designed upgrade, process, or product release will be crushed in the rumor mill or made fun of for being “too serious.” PureCars seems to want to hire experts and then intentionally not use their skillsets. Do not come to PureCars thinking you will be valued for your previous work or that you will find opportunities to acquire new skills (doesn't matter - the company’s products and technology are years behind industry standards anyway). Sure, you will be hired for your experience and they’ll love you all through the interview process, but when you arrive you’ll be expected to hang out at company parties and participate in ping pong tournaments as a test of your value to the company. Doing good work at PureCars means hanging out and sucking up to managers/directors so they feel empowered to keep making bad decisions. In fact, if you join the right clique you can be promoted from Intern to Director in less than two years! Once you realize all of this, you’ll then find out that HR is a complete joke. One of the biggest gossips at PureCars lives in the HR department and, surprise!, this person is buddies with all of the managers/directors. If you have a concern and bring it to them, you’re dead in the water. If you write anything negative (but honest) in an “anonymous” survey, your reputation will be destroyed. This company has a very bad problem with cliquish behavior and it won’t be improved so long as frat boys and their insecure friends run the place, or so long as HR can get away with unprofessional behavior. Since the company was acquired by RayCom Media, the culture and healthcare/benefits packages have become terrible. Who honestly thought that allowing a culturally backward television and radio media company to acquire PureCars was a good idea for its employees? Oh, I know, probably the members of leadership who took home all the cash. Seriously, do not waste your time here. Most meetings are gossip sessions, most work is halfway managed or planned, and many employees act like experts yet know very little about what they actually do. If you're a bully, liar, or desperate and willing to put up with chaos and confusion as a way to break into the industry then go for it. Otherwise... just, no.
