Enterprise Rent-A-Car Reviews in Houston, TX Area

Pros

-Place you close to home.
-Promotions can come quickly
-Great benefits
-Great for networking

Cons

-Promotions are based on who you not what you know.
-Employee functions are mandatory if you would like to get promoted
-Cliques, reminds me of high school on a larger scale
-Low pay even with bonuses
-Long hours
-Customers do not respect you at all
-Very expendable

Advice to Senior Management

Stop favoring employees and stop treating everything like it is a college fraternity.

Pros

Good experience, fun co-workers, great health insurance/benefits

Cons

terrible hours, no work/life balance, regional/group management is very poor - they manage by fear

Advice to Senior Management

treat employees with respect, and not as children

Pros

You learn a lot about how business works. You get to gain a little bit of expirence in a lot of different areas. The people that you work with are usually a lot of fun. All of the promotions are done from within the company.

Cons

It is a retail position so the hours aren't the greatest. The work life balance is not the number 1 thing on the minds of management. There is too much emphasis put on raw numbers no matter how those numbers are achieved.

Advice to Senior Management

Get back in touch with the mission statement. Income and growth should not supercede how customers and employees are treated.

Pros

Rental discounts
Learn the whole aspect of the business

Cons

Having to deal with picky customers
Promotions are solely based on sales
Picking/dropping off customers

Advice to Senior Management

Make promotions based on how you can run a branch as whole instead of just based on sales.

Pros

Benefits were great, dental medical vision and 401k. Co-workers as in assitant managers and other trainees were outstanding to work with. You learn how to deal with all types of customers

Cons

You have to work 48 hour weeks and make a little salary. If they tell you they're promoting you to the airport, well you're doomed. They avoid giving you your vacation as much as possible

Advice to Senior Management

Pay employees more money because it is tough work. Add better commissions if you hit your sales each month. Upper Management needs to listen to assistant managers and trainees more.

Pros

You make pretty good money while you are still in school

Cons

Washing cars in heels, long hours

Advice to Senior Management

Corporate offices should be more in touch with the branches

Pros

This is a very fun place to work. This is a pay per performance structured company. I would suggest this as a great job for any college grad. I wish I would have worked here in my mid 20's when I was able to live on a smaller salary.

Cons

Long hours. I think that the starting pay should be higher. It may be good pay for a college student who has never worked, but it was not enough pay for someone in their 30's who is used to making more money.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing what you are doing. Enterprise is a fine tuned machine. I wish I could have afforded to stay on board with you guys.

Pros

the people. the happy hours

Cons

The customers, cleaning cars while wearing a suit, upper management. The hours, the pay, sales, the stress is almost unbearable.

Advice to Senior Management

The company is too negative towards its employees. Nothing is ever good enough. Your employees work hard for you, but you seem to lack basic respect for them. The stress caused by this job has made a number of employees seek medical help and medication.

Pros

Good training program
Fun Staff

The good thing about the company if you're a college grad is that the community you work with has a lot in common with you. The training given prepares you for any sales job.

Cons

Long Hours
Low Pay

The compensation for the education received in college is almost insulting. The hours are high and the chance at promotion after becoming a mangager drops quickly

Advice to Senior Management

The other reviews state it well enough

Pros

Lots of opp to sell.
Networking through customers to find a new job.
Cool people.

Cons

Retail hours.
Mundane work.
Inhumane treatment.
You really don't learn anything like the company promises.

Advice to Senior Management

Make a schedule that doesn't require people to stay at work till 1am and come back in at 6am the next morning.