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Q&A With Advance Auto Parts Employees
One Team with One Purpose: Passion for Customers … Passion for Yes!
How employees describe working at Advance Auto Parts
Overall, experience is good but would highly consider leaving for a decent raise in salary.
Review from Admin Dept
I love the Executives I support. They are both extremely kind, caring and easy to work with.
On being friendly and better
Good place to work management needs to improve
Everything they do they need to get better people in there
What it's like to work at Advance Auto Parts
- Advance Auto Parts employees generally work 8.6 hrs a day
- Employees at Advance Auto Parts report the work pace is comfortably fast
- On a typical day, employees at Advance Auto Parts have 0 meetings
- 71% of Advance Auto Parts employees look forward to interacting with their team every day
- Advance Auto Parts employees most often take 0-10 paid vacation and sick days each year
- 43% of Advance Auto Parts employees report they are happy with their work life balance
- Advance Auto Parts employees never get valuable feedback on how to improve at work
- 51% of Advance Auto Parts employees call their work environment negative
Q&A With Advance Auto Parts Employees
IDX: 0 TOT: 93
Does Advance Auto Parts drug test or do a background check?
Top Employee Response
When I was hired in 2015 I took a mandatory drug test and a background check. Currently, these are not required.
When I was hired in April 2015, there was both a drug and background test - now there is not any testing.
When initially hired in 2014, a drug test was required - now it is not. A background test (driving history) is required for delivery drivers.
What skills do you need to be successful in the Sales department at Advance Auto Parts?
skills to sit back and be yelled at on the store floor by your manager and not do nothing.
The ability to convince people to buy stuff they really don't need. The ability to avoid completing any of the floor processes and stay camped out at the best placed register.
Customer friendly and aggressive
How are layoffs handled in the Sales department at Advance Auto Parts?
Top Employee Response
Most employees quit, primarily for better paying jobs or would rather be unemployed than suffer abuse for entry level pay.
Never heard of one at any of my sales district stores - employee turn over keeps the stores chronically understaffed.
This situation has never occurred - we are chronically understaffed.
What's the best part of your job at Advance Auto Parts?
Going home at the end of my shift.
Meeting local residents - making friendships with commercial accounts.
Interacting with positive customers and co-workers.
How's the vacation policy at Advance Auto Parts?
For full timers - good.
Decent - despite the low hourly wage.
None that I am aware of. Those who have vacation time just put in for it randomly.
Why work for Advance Auto Parts?
Wanted something to do outside of my home after retiring and extra 'mad' money. Needed to go full time to provide medical benefits for my wife. These needs both no longer exist. Staying on because I need dental work
Spent my entire career in the auto service field - it is my comfort zone. Like to interact with people and get a sense that I am helping someone.
Needed supplemental income, then needed affordable medical coverage for my wife. This situation now no longer exists - I no longer need this employment.
How's the work pace at Advance Auto Parts?
Uneven - determined by floor traffic and incoming phone calls - heavily dependent on the weather. Currently, with the store so understaffed, it is stressful.
Customer driven - depends on floor traffic - seriously hectic - then dead.
Varies - some days slow, other days hectic.
What's the internship program like at Advance Auto Parts?
Pretty much non-existent - its mostly sink or swim.
It's mostly peer training. If one is assigned to a concerned peer - it can be very good. I try, when I am assisting a new hire, to highlight pitfalls.
Unaware of an internship program.
What benefits does Advance Auto Parts provide?
Medical, sick and vacation leave, life insurance (for full time employees), dental, and vision (all employees).
Dental and Vision are a bargain - medical not too shabby either. For full time we get sick, holiday, and vacation pay. Life insurance and disability are also provided.
As a full time employee, I get sick days, vacation days, holiday pay (though not necessarily the day itself off), and medical benefits.
How do you feel about going to work at Advance Auto Parts everyday?
With misgiving
Its a job - I get paid. Depends on who my co-workers are on any given day.
Ambivalent
How secure do you feel at your job at Advance Auto Parts?
Very - they are desperate for bodies
Very - I can fill any position as required.
I feel very secure - I try my best at all times and can fill several job descriptions.
How much diversity is there among employees at Advance Auto Parts?
Currently, very little other than male/female
Mostly Caucasian males - with two female coworkers. This is more a result of applicants who are almost exclusively Caucasian males.
Very little - mainly Caucasian males apply
What is the daily attire at Advance Auto Parts?
black pants advance auto shirt
Company uniform.
Company shirts, black pants and socks, black shoes
What kind of interview questions do they ask when hiring someone in the Sales department at Advance Auto Parts?
Nothing that pertains to the treatment you receive working there
What hours can you work.
Very subtle psychological and the multiple choice answers are very narrowly framed
What's the Sales team like at Advance Auto Parts?
Currently, there are only three and we are all very stressed.
Understaffed and under managed
About what one would expect at a barely above minimum wage environment.
How does Advance Auto Parts measure success and growth in the Sales department?
Top Employee Response
Unable to tell - my pay has not changed significantly in nearly 4 years. Management's main concern appears to be avoiding working after 4 PM on weekdays, after noon on Saturdays and never on Sundays and Holidays.
By willingness to work undesirable hours, i.e., Friday 4 PM to Sunday close and holidays. By meeting daily sales goals.
Have no idea - have never received any feed back other than an occasional 'atta boy' - no change in my pay check.
How does Advance Auto Parts handle HR issues?
Top Employee Response
A very torturous, time consuming, and mostly useless process.
Incredibly poorly !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stonewall - delay - put one on endless hold - etc
What's the work from home policy like at Advance Auto Parts?
Do not know that one exists. Cannot log on the company website from home - only the GM has that access.
There is no work at home policy. I would like to be able to take the online training courses at home - even on my own time.
There is none that I am aware of.
What should I wear for an interview at Advance Auto Parts?
Top Employee Response
Doesn't matter - all of the stores are desperate for bodies to fill slots because of the low pay
Most anything clean and neat - its a low paying job and most stores are understaffed.
Business casual.
What's one thing you wish you'd known before joining Advance Auto Parts?
Top Employee Response
About the lack of pay increases
That pay (compensation) would not keep pace with price increases (inflation).
How constrained the atmosphere is by corporate
What's the office layout like at Advance Auto Parts?
Minimal - a chair and a desk in a corner
A corner in the back with a shelf providing a third wall - not private.
Absolute bare minimum - a desk and chair in a corner
How does Advance Auto Parts make decisions around promotions?
The most qualified get an offer to advance.
They tend to reward reliable, trustworthy, and capable employees.
Don't really know.
How can I improve my chances of being hired at Advance Auto Parts?
Know how to game the insane online application interview.
Learn how to 'game' the online application process.
Have a valid driver's license and clear driving record - pass the online applications.
What is the dress code at Advance Auto Parts?
Polo black
black pants advance auto shirt
Company shirt - black pants, socks, shoes
How hard is it to get promoted at Advance Auto Parts?
Top Employee Response
Only two positions are available - manager and assistant manager and are usually filled from outside.
Not hard, there is a swiftly revolving door of come and go coworkers - although there are very few positions to get promoted into.
Promoting up inside the store isn't too bad. However GM will be the highest most will be able to achieve. DM and above are mostly brought in from outside the company. Call any store and talk to the GM and ask if their DM promoted up within AAP.
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Should I work at Advance Auto Parts?
25% of Advance Auto Parts employees would encourage their friends to become coworkers, whereas 16% are neutral and 59% would not recommend working at Advance Auto Parts to their friends.
| 25% | Promoters |
|---|---|
| 16% | Passive |
| 59% | Detractors |
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