Hertz reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(8,174 total reviews)
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78% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Hertz has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 8,174 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hertz employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transportation & Logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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8K reviews
1.0
Dec 31, 2012

It hurts to work at Hertz!

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Pros

Paid weekly. 40% discount on car rentals. You get to drive a variety of cars. Well,............Thats about it.

Cons

1) The pay is less than slave wages. 2) The hours are long, and include holidays, weekends, etc. 3) Hertz thinks of ways to cheat employees out of hard earned bonses, things like changing the minimums, raising the bar, including area wide % minimums, etc. 4) Customers are rude, Many know that with complaints come discounts, so they exagerate every little thing to get discounted car rentals. The Hertz system encourages complaints by rewarding whiners. 5) The Hertz rental system goes down at least twice a week, so manual contracts have to be implemented which takes longer and irritates customers. 6) Branch managers are lazy. In my area, 5 branch managers and one area mgr. decided to take a vacation during the Christmas holidays, the busiest season for car rentals. As a result, payroll was messed up, cars weren't availble to rent, no personel backups, and no leadership when we needed it most. 7) This is a sales job, nothing more. Sure you rent a few cars, but what Hertz cares about most is your ability to sell coverages, upsales, babyseats, roadside services, etc. This leads to hustling the customer by many, adding on coverages they didn't ask for, over-quoting to meet sales minimums, etc. 8) Washing cars in triple digit heat, or artic freezes while wearing business attire totally blows! I have ruined several pairs of dress slacks, shoes, shirts and ties washing cars. 9) Hertz created customer monsters. I have to constantly upgrade customer car rentals because at our location we NEVER have economy cars. So when we finally get one and I put a customer in what they booked for, they moan and complain about getting it. How do you upsell someone into a car who has gotten it free for the last five rentals? Customers now expect upgrades everytime now, and if you don't privide it, they complain about you on customer surveys which affects your bonuses. 10) There is a HUGE divide between the front line people and everyone else. Management places unrealistic goals and mandates on their employee's without consideration or guidance as to its implementation, or its effects.

1.0
Aug 22, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Make you feel special because they only hire college graduates. They don’t tell you the truth about the real duties of your job when you are hired so you feel like you are entering in a professional environment that is going to focus on getting you to the next step as a Branch Manager.

Cons

Where do I start? Long hours, non-stop cleaning dirty cars, half the day spent as an Uber driver picking up customers and shuffling cars around to body shops for $13 an hour for a college graduate....Disrepectful coworkers who spend most of their day making fun of drivers and customers as well as other coworkers and upper management. They will often manipulate the system to rent cars that are due for oil changes and even rent cars with safety recalls. Hertz will do anything to make a $1 at the cost of employee and public safety...Don’t rent from Hertz....Poor working conditions....You’ll be lucky if there is toilet paper in the bathroom

5.0
Apr 18, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

New bonus opportunities. The best thing is the car at the end of the day. No insurance, no gas, no maintenance, and no car payments

Cons

CLEANING CARS!!!! Cleaning cars is definitely the worst part about this job. Not the funnest thing in the world. Sweating and then renting cars is not ideal.

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