Sales - Anonymous employee AutoNation Employee Review

1.0
Mar 13, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

teams are usually pretty fun and friendly.

Cons

Pay Plan is TERRIBLE. Nothing sucks more than getting a $100 commission on a luxury and seeing a $4000+ gross (they will try to hide the gross from you, but its easy to find on compass on any deal)... Not only did they cover more than my entire months "hourly rate" but they got away with giving me 2.5% of a sale vs. the normal 20-30% most other companies/dealerships give. If car sales is a career path you're considering, do not go with autonation. The pay is not enough to allow you to "live" comfortably. Our dealership management was jumping for joy when they made 50k in a weekend... yet their sales team more than likely made less than 3% of that as their take home... Autonation is still figuring out their payplan because they just changed to it, but as of right now the compensation is a slap in the face, find a different company until they fix it.

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Pros

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Cons

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