Listers Employee Reviews

Love working for listers, the company has good people who will go above and beyond and help you if your struggling with a certain task. It's a great place to work too.

Pros

Free breakfast, good salary, good bonuses

Cons

Nothing

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You get out what you put in

Customer Service Manager (Current Employee) - Evesham - 14 August 2023

A long day starting at 7.30 and finishing at 18.00 but always busy, but enough time to rest and have a cuppa ! Always a good banter between work associates .Most of our customers have become friends .

Pros

Being able to have a laugh

Cons

Long hours

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Insights into Listers

Based on 37 survey responses

What people like

Ability to meet personal goals
Clear sense of purpose

Areas for improvement

Time and location flexibility
Sense of belonging
Support from manager

Great team

Senior Service Advisor (Current Employee) - Honda Stratford - 11 July 2023

Great team. Great support from all staff. Really feel like they are my familyI enjoy the job role and what it offers. Management always supportive and offer continuous trainingA shorter day than 10 hours would be amazing though!

Pros

The team

Cons

The hours

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Productive, fast pace work place

Assistant Service Manager (Current Employee) - Coventry - 23 May 2023

Family run business, and you feel that within your teamOpportunities advertised within groupFlexible hours availableThey love to promote within businessYou are appreciated as a staff member

Pros

Group activities

Cons

Long hours

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Family run Group

Sales Admini (Current Employee) - Coventry - 23 May 2023

I have worked at listers for coming up to 6 years. The company offers good company benefits including car scheme, private healthcare.Working at Listers you will be in a fast paced environment however the colleagues make the days better. There is a great team ethic and everyone is always willing to help others.

Pros

Friendly colleagues, staff benefits, you can gain additional qualifications

Cons

Fast Paced environment can sometimes cause stress levels to increase

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Long hours and no recognition

Manager (Current Employee) - Coventry, West Midlands - 20 April 2023

Management are clueless and have not got an idea about their jobs and have been promoted/or applied for their positions.Listers reputation will suffer in the long run with this style of management. Very much a boys club and if your face fits etc.

Pros

Nice cars to drive

Cons

salaries are low, heavily OTE which is archaic nowadays.

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Nice products, poor senior management, PLC culture

Technician (Former Employee) - Worcestershire - 16 April 2023

My manager was a really nice bloke, really supportive at times of need and ask him to do something he would get it done or point you towards someone who could get it done. I'd happily work for that manager again at another company.The problem was the hours and salery, salery was not competitive compared to other dealer groups in the area, the bonus was excellent...until you hit it regularly and the senior management flag you up as earning too much and change your structure so you earn £3-400 less a month so they can line their own pockets and pretend that they're carrying out Tory style austerity measures. The hours are very long compared to other dealer groups, no flexible hours and you don't get paid overtime only standard rate. Something that's not mentioned at interview or offer stage. Training is excellent, Listers do keep by their word by sending staff on lots of training which is rare. Listers are not the worst company I have worked for but they need to stop pretending to be a PLC and reduce management headcount and stop gaslighting their staff in pretending that they pay industry leading salaries when they don't. The jobs there would suit single childless men and women who don't mind working long hours.

Pros

Nice products, great training, Listers benifits schemes are good, line manager very good

Cons

Long hours, plc culture, pay, greedy head of business and directors/divisional managers

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Your face has to fit

Sales (Former Employee) - Droitwich, Worcestershire - 12 March 2023

First impressions were good however that didn’t last unfortunately. I was happy and settled doing the job I was employed to do but significant and unpopular changes were made by senior management to how we worked resulting in a lot of unrest and bought morale to an all time low and it’s difficult to work well in a negative environment. I generally got on well with my colleagues some of whom were great people but there were also others that were not so pleasant. Could be very ruthless and cut throat. The actual job was fine, it’s really down to the culture and senior management that upset the apple cart- if it ain’t broke, why fix it? It’s definitely a case of whether your face fits. Life is too short to be unhappy at work.

Pros

Some of the colleagues I had the pleasure of working with.

Cons

Not a pleasant culture / working environment

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Great Place to work

Sales Executive (Current Employee) - Boston, Lincolnshire - 2 March 2023

I have been working for this company for 8 month now and every single person I know told me that I shouldn't come to work here, it is good that I didn't listen! This place is really great, full off protentional and opportunities, most importantly the people are genuinely amazing and working environment really nice too. Management is keen for you to progress and helps a long the way. Just to put into perspective, I travel 1h one way to work here, so you be a judge of that!You get what you put and there is no way about it.

Pros

Great team

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Poor place to work - no support

Administrator (Former Employee) - Droitwich, Worcestershire - 25 February 2023

I worked for Listers in Droitwich about 12 years ago, thought I had got the best job ever but couldn't have been more wrong. They sacked me after 3 weeks cause I hadn't picked the job up quick enough. Promised me the earth but delivered nothing. Worse company ever, stay well clear no matter what they promise you.

Pros

Nothing

Cons

Rubbish comany

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Sales Executive (Former Employee) - Hull - 25 December 2022

Management hit and miss, claim to be a family friendly company and promise you every other weekend off but this rarely happens if a customer wants to pick up their car on your weekend off.Colleagues ace, some management utterly useless. Definitely a younger person’s job,

Pros

Company car, decent commission

Cons

70 hour weeks are not unheard of

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Listers Audi

Sales Executive (Former Employee) - Birmingham, West Midlands - 21 December 2022

The managers do not care about you at all and will use you as much as they like and give promise and don’t keep it and also the higher manger at very bad too the company only cares about numbers if and all you are to them is a number and they will replace you at any time with no reason I was working there for almost 2 years and they replace me for no reason and they will get ride of you on the day very disrespectful. Highly recommend working for someone else

Pros

Company car

Cons

Everything

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Meh

Sales Executive (Former Employee) - Cheltenham - 11 November 2022

Not a great place to work face don’t fit and nothing else the management don’t care about anybody but themselves and head office let things go. Nothing elseTo say

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Good place to work

Customer Service Advisor (Former Employee) - Hereford, Herefordshire - 10 November 2022

I worked at listers for 4 years, good company benefits including car scheme, private healthcare. Fast paced work environment with great colleagues. Would recommend

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Great company to work for

Warranty Administrator (Current Employee) - Shirley, West Midlands - 10 November 2022

Have been with Listers almost 15 years and still everyday I get up and want to go to work. Great people I work with, great management team onsite, great company to work for and feel I am treated extremely well. It’s a very busy environment and can be challenging but any different it would be boring. You are rewarded for working hard and I have found the company to be very accommodating when needing to leave early for personal things, the main thing is that the managers door is always open, doesn’t even have to be a work issue, anything from family problems or just need someone to listen, yes targets can be high and challenging, but that makes it all the more better when you smash them.

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Great company to work for

Aftersales Manager (Current Employee) - Coventry, West Midlands - 28 September 2022

Great company to work for been with the company nearly 10 years. A lot of long standing staff work here. Great team and everyone is will to help each other. All to support in the business

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Great environment with good atmosphere.

workshop controller/diagnostic technician. (Current Employee) - Lexus Cheltenham - 23 August 2022

I have been working for Listers for 25yrs now, and in that time I have always felt respected and have been looked after by managers over the years and most of whom have given me support through challenging times at work and away from work.Throughout my time with Listers I have also found it to be fun and its important to be able to have fun while putting a shift in. (Yes it can be done).I have always found that if you work hard then you are rewarded in many ways and this is also where you earn the most important thing and that is respect.Yes there will be tough days and the job can be and is stressful a lot of the time but knowing you are appreciated helps you cope with it.

Pros

Respect/support/rewards.

Cons

I am not going to lie there will be cons but I am sure the pros out weigh.

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Poor management

Level 3 Service Tech (Apprenticeship) (Former Employee) - Solihull - 8 August 2022

No work life balance. Management always treat you poorly. I Avoid Listers at all costs. Management constantly changing. Very high turnover of staff due to the way you are treated.

Pros

None

Cons

Everything

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Oppressive culture

High performer (Former Employee) - Lincolnshire - 3 August 2022

Inappropriate management styles (people promoted to mgr position as a retention strategy, with poor people mgmt skills) and too much micro-management, meant they did not get the best out of people, leading to high staff turnover. Renumeration for sales lower than other industries, due to competition from online and distributive strategy businesses.Poor work-life balance. Not recommended

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Awful, avoid at all costs

Trainee Sales Executive (Former Employee) - Evesham, Worcestershire - 13 May 2022

Terrible management, 70+ hour work weeks are expected, training bonuses are promised but not paid, zero training and support from management AVOID!!!!

Pros

Got to drive some interesting cars

Cons

Long hours, terrible management, zero training and support, training bonuses not paid, poor work/life balance

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No work life balance

General Sales Manager (Former Employee) - Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire - 22 April 2022

If you are happy to give up having a life outside work, this is the company to work for. They pay well but your personal life's suffers, and the answer when asking for some flexibility is to say its the Motor trade get over it....Well the 1980s wants its attitude back. There are better companies to work for. You are expendable, never forget this.

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