Hertz reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(8,174 total reviews)
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Gil West

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
Sep 18, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-This is a great place to work if you don't actually want to work, don't want to be recognized for your hard work, or don't want to being held accountable for your work. -HR was friendly. Not always very helpful, but friendly.

Cons

-No support or understanding of employees with families. I worked with an all childless "team" at the rural location where I worked who clearly voiced their hatred for children every chance they could get. -You're only training is through a computer program instead of being trained by a person. My manager literally went on vacation five days after I was hired for four days. My coworkers were expected to assist in training me, but the moral was so bad I got left alone at the front counter with no clue how to properly complete a rental or return. Customers were waiting in line over an hour including a celebrity Hertz platinum customer. -EVERYONE STARTS AS A MANAGER IN TRAINING EVEN IF YOU HOLD A MASTER'S DEGREE! Which is ok. I get the rational behind structuring a company this way. But, I took the job despite holding a Master's because I'm humble. However, everyone else around me besides the manager took my humbleness and willingness to work hard as signs of weakness. I was constantly spoke down to because I asked questions and actually tried to learn about/how to properly do the job which was perceived by others as a lack of intelligence apparently. -70+ hours of computer learning modules are required for all employees and must completed to advance within the company. Not an impossible task and the modules were informative, but this can't be the only training tool being utilized by Hertz. -There was no discloser anywhere about who management was above my manager. Overall, poor hiring tactics. Be prepared for all of your coworkers to exhibit bad customer service (there are very yes we can attitudes here) and complain about how they have an Associates or Bachelor's degree, but are working here. Also, don't expect much guidance from your manager as they will most likely be young and inexperienced. My manager kept on an employee who was a sales associate who refused to work the front desk so he spent all day washing cars...well sort of there were a lot of times when you'd go to the area where he was suppose to be washing cars and wasn't there. We never seemed to have any clean cars to rent out, but everyone had a lot of time to stand around (except the manager who seemed to be doing everything). Seems like this employee should have been spoken to, but nothing was ever said by management who was too busy asking her employees to drive broken/unsafe cars into town for repair on the 1-17. I couldn't tell you what the emergency plans were at my location. I got tired of my coworkers constantly being upset at me for asking them to follow company policy/state law LIKE WEARING SEATBELTS when in the vehicles! I couldn't stick around long enough anymore under the working conditions especially with no guarantee of being promoted.

1.0
Mar 4, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You can meet some cool people. The people you work with are your support, even if they drive you crazy sometimes.

Cons

Where to start. 1. You're basically on your own, your store I mean. Most of the time you'll have NO cars, so you'll be getting yelled at a lot. 2. Hertz right now is going through a really bad financial crisis. It used to be that you'd work such long hours that it would drive you crazy, but at least you'd get somewhat of an ok pay. they RECENTLY cut overtime, you are only allowed to work 40 hours a week, making it almost really difficult to live on. They are trying to say that this is for the employees, but it wasn't until a recent talk with a manager in Houston did I learn that they're basically making up for all the money they've lost. 3. You might say, or they might tell you, "your bonus will make up for all the lack of income you get" which is true, but sadly, they change the bonus system so much that it's really hard to do that, and for the people that do do that, there's a lot of issues ethically that you have to do. FOR EXAMPLE, giving someone a car that SHOULD NOT be on the road, which happens almost twice a day. A lot of illegal things go on there Another thing, all the good reviewS on here are written by corporate... AFTER THEY WERE VOTED ONE OF THE WORST COMPANIES TO WORK FOR.

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