Pep Boys reviews

2.6

21% would recommend to a friend

(1,606 total reviews)

Joe Auriemma

14% approve of CEO

18% positive business outlook

Pep Boys has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,606 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Pep Boys employee rating is 30% below average for employers within the Servicios de construcción, reparación y mantenimiento industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
Jul 30, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Working with the customers, getting them a yes we can fix your problem when all they have heard is no from everyone else. Succeeding and delivering on everything you had promised the customer and them staring you in the eyes and genuinely thanking you for fixing there problem. Feeling the accomplishment, the hard work and everything you had done to make their visit wonderful. Turning them into a "you" customer not a Pepboys customer. The ability to create your following.

Cons

Very very poor, better yet said lack of or no training at all. They just toss you to the wolves and expect you to leap hurtles, climb mountains and create miracles. Now some of us are able to do that and we do that just fine, but I poured my heart and my soul into my job and truth be known there are so many facets to the job that a lot are often overlooked or never completed, again do to not knowing because you we're never properly trained. It would be a lot easier if we had support especially from our Human Resource department. Over the past year Pep Boys has taken a severe turn for the worse. The new HR person for the particular area/division that I was working in was the absolute worst HR person I had ever worked with. An absolute total disappointment. You know what I'm saying when I say it's one of those types of people that's always pointing the finger at everything but never looks down to see where the thumb is pointing. Zero recruiting abilities and displays no sympathy nor empathy for other employees. I cannot stress how disappointed I myself and the majority of other Pepboys employees are of the current HR in the area/division I was working in.

2.0
Jul 2, 2015

Analyst

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Gym, cafeteria, location. Great place to get business experience, and take elsewhere.

Cons

Unorganized company, low morale, no perks, terrible benefits. Old systems- company can't afford to upgrade.

3.0
Jun 30, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

most of the people are really easy going and easy to get along with, they hire alot of new techs so they dont expect your work to be flawless, they have schools where they can teach you about specific area in automotive, great place to earn experience before moving to a different shop

Cons

the way they pay their techs is messed up. they offer fleet customers so many free things and they dont pay the techs for doing the work, or the amount of flat rate time jobs pay is often to little. corp. is constantly changing things, they are constantly changing the schedule, we get the new schedule a day before sometimes the first day of the new work week. alot of the tools in the shop are outdated or not working properly, the shop at least at the one i work in the roof leaks during the rainy season and the "a/c' its really just old beat up swap coolers dont cool anything, most of the service writers have no knowledge in automotive. most mechanics atleast in the store i work at end up making minimum wage

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