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Penske Automotive Group

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Penske Automotive Group reviews

4.6

89% would recommend to a friend

(954 total reviews)
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Roger S. Penske

95% approve of CEO

86% positive business outlook

Penske Automotive Group has an employee rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars, based on 954 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Penske Automotive Group employee rating is 30% above average for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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954 reviews
4.0
Jul 18, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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.

2.0
Jul 6, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

This company is huge on promoting from within and after a year on the job the benefits are decent. They do a great 401k also. Local management is fantastic, but once you get up to the big-wigs, they don't care about the employees. You're just a number which is unfortunate since everyone works really hard below them.

Cons

Upper management, (since it's a corporately run dealership network) don't have a tendency to really car about employee satisfaction. They do an annual employee satisfaction index and survey, and seem to always "butter" you up right before those are released. A lot of my co-workers and peers have left the company after 10+ years at the company stating that they did used to care and do a lot to make employees feel like more than just a member of the herd. Definitely need to address how they are treating the employees and do less threatening and much less "condition of employment" talks with people who dedicate 90 hours a week to making the company money.

4.0
Dec 20, 2012

Good company but not enough balance.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great group of people that appear to care about all employees.

Cons

There is no balance of work and life. You end up living there.

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