Is Advance Auto Parts a good company to work for?

Advance Auto Parts has an overall rating of 3.1 out of 5, based on over 5,723 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months. 43% of employees would recommend working at Advance Auto Parts to a friend and 32% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Advance Auto Parts have been left by employees working as Director , Sales Manager and Part Time Sales Associate .

Does Advance Auto Parts pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Advance Auto Parts employees rate their compensation and benefits as 2.8 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Advance Auto Parts. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Advance Auto Parts?

43% of Advance Auto Parts employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Advance Auto Parts 2.9 out of 5 for work life balance, 2.9 for culture and values and 2.9 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Advance Auto Parts?

General Manager (552) , Sales Associate (355) , Retail Parts Pro (284) , Commercial Parts Pro (138) , Store Manager (103) , Assistant Manager (95) , Commercial Account Manager (87) , Key Holder (84) , Manager (79) , Assistant General Manager (70) , Driver (68) , District Manager (66) , Salesperson (66) , Retail Sales Associate (64) , Delivery Driver (43)

What are the pros of working at Advance Auto Parts according to real employee reviews?

"Some good people at store level but will leave and go to work somewhere else unfortunately" ((in 283 reviews)); "The benefits are good and you will learn many things if you are not a vehicle expert." ((in 211 reviews)); "Great if your looking for part time work pretty flexible hours or if you think retail mgmt us for you..." ((in 139 reviews)); "Have some great customers and coworkers." ((in 110 reviews)); "If you get a good GM it is easy for a great team member to move up." ((in 76 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Advance Auto Parts according to real employee reviews?

"The pay was low and there was a cap on the maximum I could ever expect to make there." ((in 506 reviews)); "Poor management focuses on unreliable KPI numbers other than actually looking at each store for what they need." ((in 262 reviews)); "Development teams resource managers do not heed the input and recommendation from Product managers" ((in 120 reviews)); "Regional District Manager is untrustworthy, and is an incredibly divisive" ((in 64 reviews)); "There was no work/life balance" ((in 62 reviews))

What are employees saying about Advance Auto Parts layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Advance Auto Parts layoffs and their outlook for job security at Advance Auto Parts in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Advance Auto Parts locations?

Raleigh , Roanoke , Atlanta , Houston , Chicago , Tampa , Miami , Indianapolis , Pittsburgh , Orlando , New York , Baltimore , Columbus , Charlotte , Lakeland , Denver , Enfield , Richmond , Jacksonville , Nashville , Detroit , Delaware , Virginia Beach , Austin , Cincinnati , Boston , Marietta , Gastonia , Remington , Cleveland

Advance Auto Parts reviews

3.1

43% would recommend to a friend

(5,530 total reviews)

Shane O’Kelly

22% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

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Advance Auto Parts has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 5,530 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Advance Auto Parts employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

Reviews by job title

6K reviews

1.0

Nov 16, 2020

Simply Worse

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Perks such as food coupon, creche facility, cab facility, 56 holiday in a year, good salary etc

Cons

You never get to enjoy those Perks. Work hours are long like 14 hrs a day. Managers treat you like a bondage labor & even asks you to work on weekends or public holidays continuously . 0 work life balance & even if you get sick, managers don't care & still ask you to work. No clear roadmap on setting up the process or reduce the work load or even distribute evenly or even hire sufficient people. They lure people in by paying high salary & once people are in the company they can't leave since such package no one else will offer. Simple Trap.

5.0

Nov 6, 2017

Mechanical engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good learning and develop skills and develop and helping and my professional and required to develop in a humidity

Cons

One of part of in ur company such a interesting working and required to stability to work

3.0

Oct 30, 2015

Great co-workers and terrible management

Commercial parts pro

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

I work on the commercial side of one of AAP's hub stores. I really enjoy the day-to-day aspects of what I do. I live in a relatively small town where everybody knows everybody, so when customers come in we can not only discuss real business needs but we can talk about non-business related topics as well. It makes for a very good relationship between our customers and our company. I often joke about how we should install a row of beer taps on the back wall just to see how long some of our customers would come by and hang around. Some of them literally will come in just to chat without buying a single thing. That's just the nature of our business. They trust us and treat us as friends and equals rather than just a faceless storefront where they can source parts for their next repair. The camaraderie that I share with my co-workers and with my customers is literally unparalleled. That's what makes me love what I do. This is the first job I've ever had where I sincerely wake up looking forward to going to work.

Cons

It appears as though the company, writ large, is more focused on retaining cash assets than they are interested in making our jobs easier. With over 10 years of parts experience I'd expect that they'd be willing to pay me more than I'm currently earning. Beyond that, though, our company has repeatedly shown, time and again, that they are patently unwilling to expend anything other than the slightest amount of money in order to to give us a respectable building to work in. We have leaks in the roof - which oftentimes drip directly onto parts that could be adversely affected by moisture - and a whole host of other issues that we have tried to address with non-store management. None of it, I am sad to say, has had any effect on anything. We are told that these are issues we need to deal with ourselves, but if we call in a third-party company to address issues we regard as problems then a veritable conniption fit is had by the same non-store management since any expenditures of this sort directly affect bonuses. In essence, I love my job but I hate where I work. Does that make sense?

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