Hertz reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(8,173 total reviews)
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78% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Hertz has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 8,173 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hertz employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transporte y logística industry (3.5 stars).

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8K reviews
1.0
Jun 6, 2014

Aladeen in the land of confusion

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Reputable brand adding benefit to a CV. Given that what does not kill makes stronger, great place to stretch ones resilience

Cons

Dysfonctional top management changing directions more than the English weather (in the summer) creating an unpalatable climate of fear, paranoia an disenchantment. Interesting motivational tactics include limiting the right to print in color to VPs and above, and a clean desk policy personally enforced by the president.

1.0
May 9, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

None. Isn't it obvious that the good reviews coming in concentrated batches look obviously fake? The same happened a while back, when directors and above were told to enter reviews.

Cons

Leadership is weak, dishonest and highly political. The company is totally focused on cost cutting at ALL costs. Management are recruited because they are cheap 'yes-men' and not because they have any relevant skills and challenge the status quo. Often this is internal promotion, because who wants external candidates with opinions and ideas - right? Pay is poor, and they want to pay less. Performance management is a non-existent joke. The staff satisfaction survey ('Pulse') is even funnier. Frissora is obsessed with the market perception of Hertz, including sites like this.

2.0
Feb 4, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Free Car Free Gas Free Insurance Fun Job

Cons

The amount of work that is required of you varies drastically from location to location. I started working at a large airport and was moved to a smaller airport but I had less responsibility in my position at the large airport but about 5 times the responsibility at the smaller airport, that came with less pay. Hertz is also so focused on saving money it's difficult to do your job at times. There was a weekend we ran out of gas because corporate refused to approve a gas delivery because they wanted to wait for the next quarter to purchase gas. At the end of the year, the company refused to give the locations any money for a Christmas (or Holiday) Party so anything we did for the employees, we spent out of our own pocket. Pay for managers is a joke...but they justify that by letting you drive a car off the lot every night which can be nice but the pay leaves a lot to be desired... My biggest complaint is that I moved across the country twice for Hertz within a year, because they asked me to, and then they laid me off after working with the company for 11 months. Needless to say, job security isn't something guaranteed within the company, which is disappointing since the CEO is still getting paid millions of dollars a year... Also, while on the topic of the CEO, Mark Frissora is the most unprofessional, crude man to meet in person. How Hertz does even half as well as it does under his leadership is amazing to me. Though it can't be doing that well because Hertz is always laying employees off...

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