Group 1 Automotive reviews

2.9

40% would recommend to a friend

(850 total reviews)
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Daryl Kenningham

58% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

Group 1 Automotive has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 850 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Group 1 Automotive employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Ventas al mayoreo y al menudeo industry (3.5 stars).

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850 reviews
2.0
Feb 26, 2022
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Pros

Very great experience, and learning a lot of operational accounting processes of dealership

Cons

Long hours for month end, be prepared to do extra work for your incompetent co-wokers Lack of communication, and very disoriented when it comes to plans Overtime paid for salary base is as close as minimum wage

1.0
Oct 11, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Even though SALES EEs get the bad end of the deal, standard company holidays for non sales EEs are good

Cons

First off the pay is simply horrible. They pay as little as $13-$14 dollars an hr to your billers and you expect $25 work ethic. You have to WORK MANDATORY OVERTIME at CLOSEOUT 3-4 days at beginning of every month then when close out is over YOU'RE MADE TO GO HOME SO THEY DON' T HAVE TO PAY YOU OVERTIME PAY. Management actually brags about this. This has to be illegal but they don't care. NO consistency .... Constantly changing your stores because EE are always leaving. Oh my GOD the managers and directors alike treat EEs like crap. They literally walk right pass you, make eye contact and WILL NOT SPEAK they want you to know you are NOTHING to them. As a BILLER you do billing, inventory, controller, payroll and other job title duties with no pay nearly worth it. They combined inventory and billing job titles and duties and didn't match the pay of the lower job title. But you're still expected to do all the work

1.0
Sep 8, 2025

A truly awful, morally bankrupt, shoddy organisation

Anonymous employee
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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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