Advance Auto Parts reviews

3.1

42% would recommend to a friend

(5,524 total reviews)
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Shane O’Kelly

18% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

Advance Auto Parts has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 5,524 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).

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3.0
May 19, 2009
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Pros

Lot of different experiences, you meet all types of people. Discounts are nice for getting car parts for working on your own stuff.

Cons

Shifting hours, lots of work for the wages, you need to be very experienced to be any use there. Might be a problem for people just looking for a job.

3.0
Dec 24, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

the best thing about advance auto parts was the fact that you got to learn a lot about cars. another great thing would probably be the discounts you would get on parts for your cars. it was great because we could second source parts from other places like catalogs and direct dealers and get advance auto parts' pricing. in other words we would only pay cost on the parts. the store i worked at was good because it was the hub. (the main warehouse for our district) did i mention the fact that we got really good discounts on just about everything.

Cons

some of the downsides of working at advance auto parts was the fact that the management was really bad, at least at my store. they start you off at 7.25 per hour. in my opinion that was probably the worst part. as a sales associate you have to many tasks to work on. first you have to clean the bathrooms after you close, then you have to front the store. after that you empty out the trash. and the worst task would be that you had to Zamboni the floors and buff them afterward every time you closed the store.

3.0
Dec 15, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

auto parts business is pretty stable and Advance is a growing company.

Cons

health benefits are poor. assistant mgr's are paid hourly. when you are hired they offer you an amount of money like a salary, they calculate this figure so that working 50 hours a week adsup to this number. The problrm is that when business is slow they try to give you less than 50 hrs. If you work less than 50 hrs, you will be making less than what they offered you to work for them. In the few years i had worked for advance they had continually reduced the bonus plan.

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