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Penske Automotive Group

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Great pay, long hours, not good job security! - Sales Professional Penske Automotive Group Employee Review

4.0
Jul 18, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

You are guaranteed $2500 every month just for showing up on your scheduled days. You have opportunity to walk around the lot and not be confined to a desk making phone calls. Every one outside my department seemed to enjoy their job everyday and were very sociable.

Cons

NO JOB SECURITY! Your future lies in the hands of stock holders on wall street deciding how many people need to be hired/fired on a monthly basis to ensure the stock stays high. It is very important to meet your sales quota, if not slightly exceed it. Even though exceeding quota means your quota the next month goes up, even during historically slow months. Managers sometimes schedule 6 or 7 10-hour days in a row, instead of hiring one or two more sales reps. This causes the whole sales team to be very tired, ineffective, and a lot of my coworkers were constantly wired on Red Bull and cigarettes. This resulted in the customers being over pressured to buy a vehicle they never wanted.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Their HR department does not hold their managers accountable for the abuse they are causing onto their employees. Being told to "remember to clock out" for lunch because we always have to work through our lunches is so small compared to all the other issues that occur in Penske. HR chooses not do anything to help their employees when they report something. They realistically do not care whatsoever that extreme misconduct occurs. They also don't ever care to explain the benefits that may be necessary for work/life stress balance except for one quick second at Power Up. HR does not tell you anything to set you up for success.

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