Firestone Employee Reviews for Tire Sales Manager

What do you like about working at Firestone?

"Promoting from within the company, great benefits, quality tires and services"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"rewarding work with customers, gaining trust in fixing their second biggest investment, medical and dental benefits are above average, free prescription safety glasses to use in shop"

What don't you like about working at Firestone?

"Poor recruiting of quality teammates, inconvenient scheduling due to low headcount in most locations (does not allow for plans with family/holidays/church), tenure and long experience with company not a factor in promotions, heavy micromanagement of store managers by upper management even when numbers are good"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"If a manager and his store are productive and profitable and numbers are in line, stop demanding more agressive behaviors regarding inspecting vehicles and excessive recommendations and restricting overtime"

What do you like about working at Firestone?

"helping customers, being able to earn bonuses based on sales, decent salary"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You either have to know the automotive industry (even though they specify its not required) or do some serious self training"

What don't you like about working at Firestone?

"I did not feel that I was taken seriously and wasn't given the opportunity to grow and develop within the company. All the management cared about was the numbers"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"more continuous training, more communication between management and employees, treat employees with more respect and support them"

What do you like about working at Firestone?

"The marketing of new products and the travel and the sales competitions"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Keep in mind you will have to work every weekend and most holidays"

What don't you like about working at Firestone?

"The idea of working every Sunday and weekends and having time of during the week"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"treat every person fare and only give management the key code to the cash register"

"Early first job so the point of view is based on a entry level management position"

What do you like about working at Firestone?

"It was a fast paced work environment with a built in training system for future store management"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"If you are interested in a fast paced sales oriented work environment then this company would be a good match for aspiring managers."

What don't you like about working at Firestone?

"It was most of the time a 7 day a week 12 hour day so burn out was a factor. This may have been due to the availability of local resources to recruit additional relief."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Its been to long since my experience there so they may have made some changes at this point."

"This was a good learning experience from a service standpoint and a business to business"

What do you like about working at Firestone?

"Opportunity to implement new ideas"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"This is a good learning envirement, but not a career"

What don't you like about working at Firestone?

"Lack of advancement"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More open to ideas and suggestions"