DriveTime Automotive Group reviews

Annual merit increases is only 3%. No real coverage when you need time off. If you ask for time off, then the other manager has to work from open to close. Retail hours and you have to work on Saturdays. Once you get to GM, there isn't much more growth within the company unless you want to go to another state. Regional manager is never around (may be a good thing). Horrible at recruiting. you have to hire your own team even though we have a HR dept.

The hours are horrific. I was initially working a 45 hour week with 2-3 closing shifts (til 9pm). Things were fairly flexible and I usually got to leave by 5 or 6pm on one of the weekend nights. After an upper management change we were bumped up to a 50-55 hour work week and had to work until 9pm every Friday and Saturday night. The company made several changes that made it more difficult to approve customers. Increased down payment requirements, lowered max payments, raised pti guidelines, and required more documentation at the time of sale. They also stopped a program that paid sales associates at competing dealerships to refer in customers they could not get financed (this accounted for 20% of Drivetimes business). With all of these changes and a challenging economy as well, they increased the budget in my dealership by roughly 10% over last year! The entire company is tracking roughly -15% and we are being held accountable for not attaining a budget that is way out of reach.