ADESA reviews

3.1

45% would recommend to a friend

(619 total reviews)

John Hammer

47% approve of CEO

39% positive business outlook

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
Feb 25, 2016

Poor place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Most of the dealers are ok

Cons

Bad management, employee moral is very low

1.0
Oct 21, 2015

sales

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

face paced, dynamic, great customers

Cons

Adesa will always change your pay, make goals so high you end up working for your small salary. No integrity in their system, its all what you negotiate for all policies, procedures, pay territories even individual customers. If it benefits Adesa to make a customer a house account they will take it away from the sales person and tell you to go grow your territory.

1.0
Aug 5, 2015

Highly Unorganized - Very Little Direction

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

ADESA's largest pro is that they rely on large fleet & factory customers not wanting to put all of their eggs in one basket(Manheim). People at the auctions are the life blood of the company, they do a good job of taking care of customers.

Cons

Too many to mention. Heavy in corporate employees that have zero auction experience. Almost zero understanding of their customer's(auto dealers) retail processes and how they play into their wholesale strategy. ADESA is still run like a private company, rampant nepotism, many corporate VPs, Executive Directors, Directors, etc... don't have the chops to make simple business decisions. Reporting is wildly sporadic and unreliable. ADESA recently entered the tech space, or tried to, both will be failures because they don't understand nor have the people to drive it.

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