Hertz reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(8,174 total reviews)
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Gil West

77% 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
Jun 21, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Free car and gas...also had that perk when I traveled the country which was extremely nice! I got enough experience in customer service to realize I really didn't like it.

Cons

Where to begin? How about at the beginning. Job listing was misleading, I was under the impression it was an MT position...it was actually for the LM position. Terrible training program, very disorganized. I spent 6 weeks training and spent most of my time shuttling cars. Smaller locations are mostly forgotten about and poorly maintained, it took me a year to get things on track! Terrible company culture, constantly threatened for not making sales (hard to convince customers LDW isn't a scam) and told to write up employees for not making sales (never did this, I found this to be unfair and counterproductive). Very low starting pay, and if you work more than 40 hrs a week (which was all the time!) you're making less than minimum wage. Benefits not great either. Absolutely NO WORK LIFE BALANCE...most of my "vacations" we're working vacations because upper management was lazy and unsupportive. Constantly understaffed and had to fight to hire...hard to buy necessary items as pcards were always shut down. Maintaining fleet was a nightmare! Terrible communication between front line ops and upper management. By the end I was working 80 hours a week, mostly cleaning cars in 100+ degree weather and getting heat sick everyday for over a month...had to go to the hospital for treatment! My health was deteriorating rapidly, I had to get out.

1.0
Jan 30, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good co-workers. It's one of the only jobs that will hire you with little experience in this tough economy.

Cons

Greatly understaffed cannot be emphasized enough. They expect you to clean cars, answer 4 phone lines at once, assist a line of customers, book reservations all at the same time while you're the only one in the office. You'll make a very low salary for busting your back on a daily basis. They expect you to clean cars in a shirt and tie when it's 100 degrees. Also, expect to work 60+ hours/per week. There is no work-life balance. Expect to work 7-6 on a daily basis. This is a SALES job. Do not be confused about a trainee program. You will be a rental agent and will be expected to push insurance onto the customers at least 3 times each rental even though they have expressed they do not want it. You will deal with a lot of customer complaints from people who want refunds because they were mislead. Expect to be spoon fed lies about promotional opportunities and be strung along. Do yourself a favor and stay away from this opportunity.

1.0
Jan 15, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Drive/work with a variety of new cars - Coworkers generally nice - Fairly autonomous during the day

Cons

- You will vacuum cars in a suit in 100* weather. Its as absurd and uncomfortable as it sounds. - Customers are often terrible - Archaic / obtrusive business practices that will frustrate customers constantly (and contribute to them being terrible) - Extremely upsell-driven environment. In non-Airport locations, you often don't have the variety of cars on hand (or the volume in customers) to even attempt reasonable upselling - Highly aggressive sales targets; will let you go if you don't meet them. High threshold before commission on sales will come into play. - Low job satisfaction / low pay / limited commission bonuses / bad work-life balance

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