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Thrown to the wolves - Sales/Client Advisor Hendrick Automotive Group Employee Review

2.0
Apr 15, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

There are certainly good things about working anywhere, and Hendrick is no exception. You are allowed a lunch time and everyday there is potential to earn. Also, I only worked at one dealership so I do not want to bad mouth all of them. There could be a very different way of things at other locations.

Cons

From the first moment, you are let loose in the dealership to "train" by watching others and picking things up as you go. Very, very casual environment that has sales people wondering around uninterested and not seeming very excited about selling. The whole place was a downer. The level of actual training was about 2% of the time I was there. You needed to train by doing, which meant a sale could and would be lost as you stumbled through the process. Oh, and the commission scale was a joke...earning a mere $20 for the first sale! It goes up, but really is not motivating in the least.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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