DriveTime Automotive Group reviews

Long hours, Managers vs Sales Advisors environment, Selling Overpriced high mileage cars, Having to sell 20+ cars to make decent money. Every year they have been lowering the commissions and keeping the base salary the same. Here's an example of your commission if you sold 15 cars a month: in 2014 you would make $400 less than last year and $700 less than the year before per month. Here's their pay plan: Cars 1-4 is $15 per car(joke), cars 5-8 is $25 per car(another joke), 9-14 is $65 per car(joke three), cars 15-21 is $165(finally a decent commission) 21 and up is $195. Have fun keeping your morale up working a ten+ hour shift when you have to split a $15 commission. Meanwhile mangers work less hours than you do but expect you to come in early and stay late EVERY day. Also they want you to sell all their ancillary products, which is their bread and butter, and you might make $100 at the end of the month if your store sells %100 percent of the cars budgeted. Overall you'll make around 43-48k a year but you'll be working 50+ hours a week and a crappy schedule that always changes. so you'll be making an average of $15 per hour no overtime.

I worked several years in management for this company. I hired and fired a lot of people and saw many come and go. If DriveTime were a person interviewing, and was completely honest up front, this is what it would/should tell you: 1. When I interview you, I will praise my work/life balance. But what I won't tell you is that it doesn't exist. Bigfoot is more real than work/life balance here. 2. I will expect everything from you. You will have to sacrifice your family time, personal time, birthdays, holidays, kid's activities and games, friend's lives, funerals, sick time, hospital emergencies of loved ones, and anything else! If you are not at my store, you will be called lazy and no good-because I should always come first. 3. I love to motivate through my managers. I will do it by calling you lazy, undedicated, a liar, nepotistic, weak and will demean you in anyway I can. My favorite is to threaten your job and tell you that you would be nothing without me. 4. I preach job security, but like #1, it doesn't exist. Just ask Bigfoot. 5. You will be blamed for everything that goes wrong. I never do anything wrong, and I will work hard to convince you of that. If you believe otherwise, I will find ways to 'motivate' you.... 6. I love you to voice your opinions; in fact, I encourage it! That way, I have 'reason' to 'motivate' (see number 3). 7. My higher up managers do nothing wrong. If you think they do, please see number 5. They aren't complete wastes of space, I need somebody to call you a liar and 'motivate' you. 8. I won't tell you that the cars you sell are junk. You will realize that for yourself. I will train you to get the customer off the lot in a car full of problems because most of them will just fix the car for me. That will save me money. 9. I love to make myself look better than I am. I will encourage employees to write fake positive reviews online to make myself look better. I don't want all of the truth out. 10. Lastly, and most importantly, I will always fight hard to save a deal with a customer. They are like gold to me! When it comes to you as an employee, you are like a tissue to me. I will use you as much as I can, leave you with my mess, then dispose of you. You are dispensable and I will make sure you know that! You make one mistake, even if you think it's my fault (see number 5), and I will get rid of you. My true nature is out there for all to see, and I won't hide it because you aren't worth the trouble. Only the customer's money is.