Sixt: Employee Reviews and Well Being: Difference between revisions

* September 2024 (current employee): ''"I like working here."''

* September 2024 (current employee): ''"Profit is paramount, employees and their well-being are given little importance, hire & fire prevails-There are enough newspaper articles about the top level (Wirtschatswoche “Wave of exodus at Sixt”), nothing needs to be said about that."''

* September 2024 (former employee): ''"from the big hit to the biggest shit."''

* September 2024 (current employee): ''"By far the best application process I've gone through."''

* September 2024 (current employee): ''"Only a number the person behind it is left in the lurch...More and more bosses are breaking under the pressure and leaving the company-The commission model has been adjusted so that employees can no longer achieve the targets without tricking or forcing something on the customers. Online prices have also been reduced so much that everything is included in the cheaper price and you can no longer sell anything to increase your commission."''

* August 2024 (current employee): ''"Great colleagues, exciting tasks, room for improvement."''

* August 2024 (current employee): ''"Sixt is living the capitalist American dream. Hire, fire, hire, fire. Give bad performance reviews to keep salaries low (don't worry about it, the performance reviews don't matter. The outcome is set six months in advance). Loyalty doesn't pay off. Over the years you earn less and less here. So start high, stay for a maximum of two years and leave."''

* August 2024 (current employee): ''"Hire and fire, everyone is afraid for their job, the reality in the stations is catastrophic conditions to the detriment of the employees. Save yourself if you can. Shareholders, the Sixt family, are experiencing a significant loss of capital in their shares."''

* August 2024 : ''"Initially very good until you have the wrong superiors, then a lot of pressure and a culture of fear."''

* August 2024 (former employee): ''"Self-destruction in Germany...There are many things that stifle motivation through personal effort and are managed completely incorrectly, even though it can be so much simpler."''

* August 2024 (former employee): ''"Culture has changed for the worse."''

* August 2024 (former employee): ''"An ultra-liberal and capitalist company."''

* August 2024 (current employee): ''"SIxt, a company that no longer values ​​its employees at all! That wasn't the case in the past...Unfortunately, the direct supervisor, i.e. the branch manager, has no say...No works council...The regional manager always has to make the final decision!"''

* July 2024 (former employee): ''"Not everything that glitters is gold."''

* July 2024 (former employee): ''"Sixt digs its own grave-Employees are simply key figures. If they don't fit, they are replaced. As a rule, most don't last longer than 2 years."''

* July 2024 (current employee): ''"They are cutting costs everywhere, especially when it comes to staff. They are understaffed and then regularly overbooked. Sixt tries to make every cent possible, at the expense of the employees. The well-being of the employees is the last priority!"''

* July 2024 (former employee): ''"Culture, salary freezes ("too little budget, show yourself first, not achieved much yet (although you have been with the company for years and have managed many projects) - a thousand excuses, but please stay with us"), false harmony, the bosses are already afraid for their jobs."''

* July 2024 (current employee): ''"Worst employer of my life-If colleagues form a team or try to stick together they are immediately fired, which is probably why there cannot be a works council!"''

* July 2024 (current employee): ''"Great colleagues, interesting tasks, trusting cooperation, for me it is just right."''

* June 2024 (current employee): ''"Currently not recommended-Incompetent managers, no employee support."''

* June 2024 (former employee): ''"Had 3rd branch manager within half a year. There was a lot of chaos in the station and every employee blamed each other."''

* June 2024 (former employee): ''"Not a recommended employer."''

* June 2024 (current employee): ''"A company like no other."''

* June 2024 (former employee): ''"An atmosphere of pressure and fear, hire and fire. If you don't reach your goals, you're put on a list that's drawn up monthly. If you're on it more than once, you're fired. Because the management miscalculated with the electric cars and incurred losses, they're cutting costs everywhere. In the branch, counter employees now also have to clean cars, washing the outside by hand (car washes are too expensive), because the budget for car care workers has been drastically reduced."''

* June 2024 (former employee): ''"Zero trust in employees. Employees make jokes when the access card doesn't work: "well, guess I was fired!" - because it is such a part of everyday work that employees are fired with immediate effect without warning or justification...I have never met a single manager who wasn't a complete windbag. The leadership qualities valued at Sixt are based neither on interpersonal skills nor proven strategic abilities, but on who can throw around empty buzzword shells the loudest. Values ​​and attitudes are nowhere to be found at management level. Egos and the ruthless exploitation of others are what count here. It is worth mentioning at this point that one of the namesakes of this company felt no shyness or shame when he quoted Donald Trump in a tough Q&A format with the entire brand team in the year 2024. Tone deaf."''

* May 2024 (former employee): ''"Used to be an exciting employer, but things have negatively developed. Glad I left-In the last 12 months that I worked in the department there was a negative vibe. High work pressure, high expectations, low reward (not talking about salary but showing appreciation and such)... I never had problems with my past managers. They were quite fair and understanding and goals and expectations that were set were acceptable.''

* May 2024 (current employee): ''"I can't recommend anyone to apply to this company-There is an atmosphere of fear that anyone could be the next to be fired...The image to the outside world is relatively good...Managers are usually under a lot of pressure from higher up and have no time to promote their own employees...Pressure is put on the vehicle detailers to record at least 1, preferably 2 or more damages per rental, which results in an endless list of defects on the vehicles...A buggy rental system that constantly causes problems makes working immensely difficult."''

* May 2024 (former employee): ''"The new Sixt generation has succeeded in creating a culture of fear."''

* May 2024 (former employee): ''"Anyone who ends up in the right department can be happy here for a long time and try out a lot of things and develop further...Working hours on a trust basis and the option to work from home have given me a good work-life balance...The salary here is very good and the benefits are very extensive...I have had to deal with good and bad bosses. Ultimately, the bad ones were too much for me."''

* May 2024 (former employee): ''"It's all about numbers, the employee doesn't count."''