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DriveTime Automotive Group

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DriveTime Automotive Group Operations Advisor reviews

3.6

37% would recommend to a friend

(176 total reviews)
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Mary Leigh Phillips

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27% positive business outlook

Operations Advisor employees have rated DriveTime Automotive Group with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 176 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Operations Advisor professionals have a good working experience there. DriveTime Automotive Group is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Operations Advisor professionals compared to other employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.4 stars).

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176 reviews
2.0
Sep 9, 2012
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Pros

The pay potential is great. Customer interaction is fun and interesting. You learn a lot about automobiles for personal use.

Cons

The management styles required for promotion are not experience or productivity in position driven. The upper management are verbally aggressive. Stores are typically short staffed due to high employee turn over. This causes current employees to have to work longer hours that they are not thanked for.

3.0
Aug 28, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

not high pressure sales, great sales experience, can advance if you have the right attitude and work ethic. overall a fun place to work, management will buy store lunch fairly often. excellent people to work with, makes going to work easy.

Cons

not a set schedule, could work open to close even if supposed to get off earlier. always changing personel in stores. different focus every week and every store is operated different. Relocation is a must if you want to move up in the company. 1st year PTO is less than 2 weeks. compensation could be better outside of tax season.

2.0
Jul 24, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

-This is a decent starting spot for the entry level college grad. You receive a base salary around 30k, and most decent sales people make 42k and more... so even if you are new to sales and are a bit nervous you can still get a paycheck.... -Free lunches from time to time -I still have a few good friends from my time at DT, although none of them work there anymore....go figure.

Cons

-Very long and boring hours. They don't advertise this...but they increase your hours during "tax time" and you may work upwards of 55 hours/week, yet they still pay you for 40. Oh, and you MUST work every Saturday during tax time, no questions asked. Your shift may be 10-8:30, leaving you no time for anything before or after work. -Your off-days are scattered, you have Sunday off and then a random day throughout the week. -They promote sheep; if you have any desire to move up in this company prepare yourself for even longer hours and be ready to be at their disposal. My manager actually made less than I did, but they sell you on "in order to move up at any company, you must make sacrifices". - If you are a sales advisor and have suggestions, they usually look down on you. Prepare to be a "suck up" if you want to be promoted. -The cars are garbage. If you have a soul you WILL feel bad for some of the people you sell to. They are clearly uneducated customers and think that just because they're getting financed, they're doing great. Little do they know (what you know), that car will most likely repo since their 10/hour job can't support their $210 BIWEEKLY payment. **One more thing, beware of reviews on here coming from Drivetime Corporate. They post good reviews on here to bring the average score up**

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