A truly awful, morally bankrupt, shoddy organisation - Anonymous employee Group 1 Automotive Employee Review

1.0
Sep 8, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

They are now one of the largest motor groups in the UK - for better or worse!

Cons

Following the buyout of Inchcape Retail UK Ltd they took the axe to the organisation and 'assimilated' a once-great organisation into the viscous, back-stabbing, self-serving, ill-managed, heartless, morally bankrupt abomination that is Group 1 Automotive. Run invasively from the US, and forced to adopt US ways of working - including the propensity to treat people like cattle rather than human beings - the culture is adversarial and unpleasant. While the organisation asset-strips any and all acquisitions it makes, its people will be treated with distain and callous disregard for their humanity.

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5.0
May 1, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Able to work from home, able to qualify for a monthly bonus, Sunday off

Cons

Only see DEI hires promoted within department, needs department leadership change and more professional training

1.0
Apr 14, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are unfortunately no pros of being a technician at this corporation when compared to other OEM dealers.

Cons

Group1 is a publicly traded company, this means they are only concerned with their bottom line. High paying jobs are funneled to low pay techs in order to bump up effective labor rate. When the stock price goes down they terminate people. There are an intense number of corporate policies and rules that you would not otherwise find elsewhere, that make your life as a technician harder, these policies are also set by people with 0 experience in the field. Everybody is paid just enough to survive, I have seen multiple techs with families that need to have a roommate to get by. There are so many terrible policies that all of the good technicians ultimately left for the most part. This company is just as bad if not worse than automation or lithia. Company advertises a 4 day work week an then makes you work 5-6. DO NOT WORK FOR GROUP 1

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