Hertz reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(8,174 total reviews)
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Gil West

78% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Hertz has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 8,174 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hertz employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transportation & Logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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8K reviews
3.0
Oct 17, 2014

Former Branch Manager

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Company car. Benefits were outstanding. Bonuses after a serious hail storm were terrific. Great coworkers.

Cons

Butt kissing gets you to the top. Incompetent area managers promoted by territory managers. Tend to work on the "drinking buddy" system. Office politics were in full effect. Constantly understaffed locations led to customer complaints, poor service and bad surveys. Which meant you wouldn't get your bonus. Too many opportunities for you to NOT reach your bonus then there was to actually attain it. This led to employee fraud just to keep your job. Area managers would ask you to call your customers and beg them to fill out the surveys. Manager trainees are forced to manipulate the system in order to keep their job let alone reach a bonus. Too much pressure put on to up sell the LDW or any new products they decide to add. I.e roadside assistance, neverlost , satellite radio. Area Managers like to separate employees at branches in order to try and make a lower performing branch start to improve. Only problem is, now you are stuck with a crappy employee and you get written up for his/her poor selling numbers now. While the other Branch Manager gets rewarded with bonuses you should have received. Always running out of cars and forcing to have to break reservations. If you did have cars you had to give them to another location due to utilization. Then you would be out of cars yourself, forcing you to once again break reservations. Serious double edged sword.

1.0
Jun 9, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

At front line levels and up to mid management there are still many good people with a willingness to do the right thing for customers, passion for service and diligent work ethic. Most, however, have left, really want to leave, or are desperately clinging to the hope that things will improve. Company car and free gas is HUGE perk. Company brand overall is well recognized. Benefits, including 401K and pension are strong.

Cons

Super long hours and work that is endless for clients that are often very justifiably upset. NO pay increases, though you can earn two nickels if you double the quota you doubled last year (#pointless) and you really never know if your bonus is accurate since the rules are constantly changing and numbers are being "manually adjusted" (#bendoverandworkharderNOW). Your boss is just as disillusioned since they have taken away all of his/her resources to do a proper job, including having enough cars to rent. Your bosses boss has one solution to every problem which is survive (#fireeveryonearound mesoicantbeblamed) and therefore has no authentic rapport with direct reports. This is NOT a recipe for a happy life or a prosperous company. Its gonna get worse. Stock dropped 9% June 6, 2014. It will be panic and pandemonium for at least another year.

1.0
May 30, 2018

Executive Assistant

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Absolutely None, this place is a nightmare

Cons

Senior Executive Leadership NO work/life balance TOXIC environment No one respects anyone at this company Rules do not apply to all, depends on the behind you kiss Senior Leadership is a joke. They all backstab one another and no one likes the CEO. She doesn’t care about anyone or anything, she does not want to be challenged. Kathy M is only interested in “yes” people, and blames everything on those whom have left the company, when in reality, SHE is the problem. HR is a complete waste, CHRO does whatever CEO mandates, he has no backbone and they do not care about the people, it’s anout fulfilling Senior Leadership’s personal agendas. DO NOT WORK HERE

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