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      ADESA

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      ADESA reviews

      3.1

      45% would recommend to a friend

      (619 total reviews)

      John Hammer

      47% approve of CEO

      39% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      ADESA has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 619 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ADESA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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      619 reviews
      1.0
      Mar 30, 2021

      Terrible Management

      Inside sales representative
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Work life balance, HSA, and PTO

      Cons

      Good luck ever getting a promotion. It's who you know, not what you know no matter how great your work ethic is. They have furloughed half the team to bring them back and let them go again during COVID. While furloughing and laying off thousands, they buy another company for 500 million. Management is practically never around and is in a meeting about 5 times a day (you'll never know what about either. Their perogatives remain mysteriously hushed). Commission seems to get lower and lower, and goals can be a bit unrealistic at times. Overall the biggest disappointment is a slap in the face raise after much hard work during furloughs with another slap in the face bonus of 100 dollars for being one of the "chosen ones" to stay during COVID furloughs, and complete lack of clarity on when and even if you can get a promotion (even though they hire outside talent just fine for higher roles and other departments still get promotions) It does have a great work life balance if you're just looking for a job, with good PTO and benefits. If you have drive and hunger to really make TRUE uncapped commissions and grow in a company, this is not for you.

      1.0
      Mar 26, 2021

      Lacking Integrity and Respect for People

      Process excellence leader
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Leaders at ADESA/KAR only serve the shareholders to ensure their high salaries and their own security. Evidence that they could care less about people is based on the facts of people being set up to fail, laid-off from work each year, being told they are not educated or smart enough, making promises they do not keep, and being reminded weekly of leadership titles. If leaders at ADESA/KAR cared about people and the customer, they would treat them as key stakeholders before the shareholders. They would help employees set and align goals and support them to achieve their targets, they would understand customer requirements and exceed those requirements to add value back to the customer. Instead, you get lip service from leaders who look at employees as a cost of doing business and discard them when it is convenient for them and their shareholders.

      Cons

      I’m big on altruism. But you cannot convince executives that money is not the goal., it is their only goal. Until that changes all hope for change is doomed. Because executives at ADESA/KAR are way too narcissistic, too greedy protecting themselves, and self-centered to ever adopt empathy, building capabilities, empowerment, and creating a continuous improvement culture into the organization. These concepts are so foreign to them even after you explain it to them, they have no idea why these concepts are important.

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