Rent-A-Center Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Great company.Excellent benefits.Good pay.Great carreer advancement. ..Exhausting hours.Very high turn over.Corporate goals, overlaped by the chain of managementStaffing issues all across the company.Spam of control is too large and dynamic (changes every day, sometimes more than once a day, having to play catch up)."

"I work at rent a center, and the company offers good benefit package, also is a good place to grow and challenge yourself"

"A heb cart pusher makes more money then a person working at rent a center."

What do you like about working at Rent-A-Center?

"The only silver lining is weekly pay... which the company knows and will consistently tell you so in a effort to squeeze more labor out of you. Or you'll be fired. Another consistent reminder."

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

"Don't dress up for your interview. All you need is a pulse. If you value home life or personal time off this job will make you kill yourself. Do yourself a favor and go find a job somewhere else. Once you get a job here you're stuck. Moving up is basically unheard of. Salary range on this website doesn't go low enough. $20000-$24000 annual working 50 hours a week every week.........."

What don't you like about working at Rent-A-Center?

"I've had a overall bad experience. I don't like that you have to work 50 hours a week every week. Even if it is a holiday, you would have to come in on your day off anyways. The company expectations and standard expectations for your performance as a store are extremely high and sometimes unattainable. Management is constantly threatening you. I don't like having to work in 104 weather carrying double recliner sofas and large items up to three stories. Stores only hire up to five people to have as much profit margin as possible. The company does not care about the extreme demands of deliveries. The fact that you only have two people carrying out every single Rental agreement that goes inside that store is ridiculous.Management is ridiculous. This is the worst retail job I've ever had. Work here for one month and you'll become cynical. Customers aren't treated fairly when it comes to extensions and whenever problems arise for them. Rent-A-Center claims to be in the quality-of-life business but since I've started working at Rent-A-Center my quality of life has gone down. I have no time for family or life. This is very saddening. Please do not work here. I am doing a service to all of you people. If you are interested in going to school do not work here. There is nothing for you here. Any positive reviews or reviews are two stars or more are people from Rent-A-Center that work at the field service center and sit in front of computer desks from 8 AM to 5 PM Monday through Friday going around the Internet and saying good things about the company and such. Let's call it positive brand awareness manipulation. Customers will enjoy a 500% interest rate. Employees will enjoy no time for little personal time at home or with family. Employees also enjoy a 20% tax on all employee purchases at MSRP. Employees have the benefit of driving in every direction across the city to deliver heavy merchandise and furniture to very tiny places. Most of your deliveries are going to credit strapped customers, typically who live in small projects. I had to go to deliveries and homes where there is so much filth I nearly I threw up. One customer had a dead rat under her fridge. Guess who had to move the fridge Got an infection shortly after that. Told management and management said it was my fault. This is just an awful company. Do not apply. Unless you just are pretty stupid."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Empathize towards employees.Just because you are a manager doesn't mean that you are above me and that I am less of a human being. If you stop leaving so early or coming in late your Store might perform well. Maybe. Stop raising your voice to get your point across. Stop raising your voice to make me work harder. Stop treating your employees like slaves."

"Long hours, high pressure, low pay, I'm ranked in the top 5 sales manager region"

What do you like about working at Rent-A-Center?

"Develop marketable skills. Sales, collections, management. If you can sell a RAC RA, you can sell anything."

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

"Get out while you can of you want a family, value time with you loved ones."

What don't you like about working at Rent-A-Center?

"Work-life balance Nonexistent. Pay Less then 35 k (despite a min. 50 hour week)."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Properly staff your stores with an adequate number of employees (not 4-7 per store) PAY MORE"

"I was promoted to an account manager."

What do you like about working at Rent-A-Center?

"Full time employment, overtime paid, work on Saturdays, closed Sunday. I like their rental products and driving."

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

"Interview is really easy which is good. Dress a sales professional."

What don't you like about working at Rent-A-Center?

"Hire unprofessional managers. Lie to customers about products and services. Promoted negative employees. Customers are were sometimes fraudulent."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Encourage honest and good sales practices. Promote good hard working professional who are enthusiastic. Sue customers for stealing merchandise. Leave personal problems at home. Business model in terms of products is good for renting offer discount option to buy price as a customer incentive. Think long range growth for profits instead of sinister short term profit making short-cuts currently being used. Allow mistakes without usually requiring a write up for employee let them correct problems."

What do you like about working at Rent-A-Center?

"I like dealing with customers and my co-workers. its like a big family"

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

"always be upgoing and be ready to show lots of energy"

What don't you like about working at Rent-A-Center?

"I don`t like that we dont start highly qualified employees at better base rate."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make peopleworkers feel more comfortable at work and they shall perform best!"

"Worked hard earned every dollar and every Saturday led to a stressed weekend"

What do you like about working at Rent-A-Center?

"Meeting new people and achieving new challenging goals as a team."

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

"Make sure you are prepared to not have a work life balance"

What don't you like about working at Rent-A-Center?

"The saturdays usually turned out to be 13 hour days which led to a stressful weekend"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"alternate saturdays between the employess in the store or at least shorten hours."

"I enjoy working for the company I do not agree with how somethings are handled"

What do you like about working at Rent-A-Center?

"I like the fact that I get paid on a weekly basis."

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

"When interview for this company please be advised of the handbook and utlize it if need be. Some management will take advantage of the fact that employees do not know what they recieve for being an employee and what they can use if any issues arise."

What don't you like about working at Rent-A-Center?

"Some issue that have happened with me in the past were not delt with in a proper manner as required."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"When some issue arise do not try and sweep them under the rug because in the long run they will hurt the company in the long run, as well as the store."

"Great learning Experience"

What do you like about working at Rent-A-Center?

"Opportunity to learn and move up, resources avalible to do your job"

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

"Have clear understanding of the LTO industry and people managment prior to accepting a position"

What don't you like about working at Rent-A-Center?

"The company culture is not about the people and there are to manny no-experirence managers making desitions on people lives"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stay intouch with the field and understand the field jobs prior to making changes"

"Rent-a-Center is a great place to learn about consumers and their behaviors while earning management experience."

"I don't feel as if I fit in with the clientele and the employees."