Slow steady easy ride, good benefits I survived the pay of 10.00$ starting since I still lived with my family.
Pros
Great confidence booster for jumping into the automotive field, Tests automotive knowledge base, keeps fresh in memory. If you are willing and eager to learn new things the information is always at your finger tips. Really good ladder system for starting comfortably at the bottom with a parts delivery driver / customer service position up to parts specialist, then assistant manager and manager and up words if you're really striving for it the system was really good to me.
Cons
I had a AS in automotive technology that I worked 2 years to get as well as a separate 2 year service management AS degree both from WyoTech Fremont ( a very good and popular automotive trade school ) I had just freshly graduated prior to my hiring on with Kragen and I had a great portfolio showing my perfect attendance and 4.0 GPA and all my awards and achievements and training certificates and such ,, Because of this I really did expect to be offered a higher base pay. I did ask for 15 to start but they said that they started at 10 unless you had actually ASE certifications which, I understand if you are going to be working at a shop or a dealership WORKING on peoples cars but for selling car parts I did expect what I had to be more than enough to earn a higher base pay... They did have good benefits which made up for it as I was able to get the glasses and dental work id been needing for near to nothing and I did get a 30 cent raise after the first year... I was and still am disappointed at the low hiring pay considering the training, knowledge and certifications that I had earned... I don't think anyone was started at much lower if they had no knowledge of the field whatsoever.
