DriveTime Automotive Group reviews

- Pay is not even close to competitive and is extremely low for the industry in all roles. They expect a lot for very little pay. - Senior leaders are elitest and part of a good old boys club with a lot of leaders being promoted from being interns / straight out of college so they have no other business experience outside of the convoluted business environment they have been surrounded by making their daily business decisions skewed. - They consistently focus on cost over quality and have very minimal safety programs reflecting that they don't really value their employees or their customers. - There is no HR department so leaders can do as they please without ramifications leaving the employees with no one to escalate issues to for any possible resolution. Also no one to go to when you are put in the middle of unethical business dilemmas by your leaders. - Diversity is lacking and severely undervalued within the organization overall with minorities and women being found in very few leadership positions. And when they do finally make it to these roles their opinions are not welcomed or valued in any way. - Company is shrinking leaving their future stability in question.

I started this review almost a year ago and I held off but I will submit it now... Management changed my outlook to an extent but most of the cons still stand true. No such thing as a work/life balance. The 4x10 schedule was great but they decided to implement the old schedule way before tax season started and it was more than dead in the store. Management preaches hitting call numbers which leads to low quality calls because the leads for the most part are awful with not in service numbers. Eventually those numbers became your friend to help you reach call targets. The cars that we sold were sub-par just like the lending we provide. It blows my mind how the sales person gets dinged if the customer doesn't make one of their first three payments and it gets repossessed. If anything Bridgecrest should take the hit for allowing us to sale a person who is known to never pay back anything in their life. Change in the pay plan for sales is also ridiculous. Management tries to assure you it is for the better but when you do the math you will make less than you would if they gave back the bonuses and commission from the first sale. The only real advancement possible is if you want to relocate. If you want to survive here understand the clientele and remind yourself that you’ll be as successful as you want. You can make easy money, yes, but be ready to put in over 50+ hours to make $60-70k when that effort could yield you $100k+ in REAL sales opportunities. This is a job for the uninspired who can handle low tier rats who try to drag you down much like their credit and want to benefit off such. Good luck.