CarMax Reconditioning Associate reviews

2.4

18% would recommend to a friend

(212 total reviews)
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Keith Barr

14% approve of CEO

14% positive business outlook

Reconditioning Associate employees have rated CarMax with 2.4 out of 5 stars, based on 212 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Reconditioning Associate professionals have an average working experience there. CarMax is rated 32% below average by Reconditioning Associate professionals compared to other employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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212 reviews
1.0
Apr 24, 2014

Unhappy

Recommend
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Pros

Great company, they give you uniforms, they even wash them for you and bring them back a week later.

Cons

Poor management, minimal promotions/raises, lack of teamwork and leadership. Overworked and underpaid

4.0
Apr 16, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Really good medical and dental benefits. Tuition reimbursement paid for my 2nd BS degree. Discount on wholesale vehicles (The savings now is as good as it use to be). The Corporate culture at Carmax is very casual and a lot of fun. I still keep in touch with a lot of the great people I met there. This was the first corporation I've seen in which the CEO drops by and plays basketball with the hourly employees. We had volleyball courts on the premises and we're regularly treated with outdoor barbecues. In Operations your pay was determine by your effort. The more vehicles you were able to push out the more you made for that pay period.

Cons

Sales has a lot more downside but nothing negative I can think of in Operations.

2.0
Mar 23, 2014

Quantity over Quality

Recommend
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Pros

All of the employees are nice, everybody is friendly and CarMax has a strict and stringent hiring policy. They really know how to pick them. Driving all kinds of cars around is a lot of fun, as well as bragging to your friends about the fact you have driven almost every kind of car you see on the road. Pay is decent, I work in operations, and in my store it's hourly which is rare for dealers. In your area it might be commission, so ask questions if and when they offer you the position. It really feels like a family there, as cliche as it may sound.

Cons

Where do I begin? Management at first glance looks composed and like they know what they are doing. They definitely don't! Their constant hounding to "hit production numbers or work tomorrow(Saturday), after working M-F 4:30am-3pm!" In my store and many others as well, corporate expects impossible things. Things we cannot control, like sales, titles coming in, etc. On top of that, there is blatant favoritism for 2nd shift who get paid 1$ more an hour than us, because they work until midnight or later, I understand labor laws, but still. I cannot even begin to describe how hard I have worked for that company and everybody around me, who have worked there less than I have, and who have constantly slacked off get promoted, while I stay stuck where I am! If you don't complain about your position, which is not in my nature because I'm a hard worker, you get pushed around, and things are expected of you that you do as favors. They try to butter you up by offering you free BBQs, lunches, prizes(which I never win) and visits by the CEO, their stupid promotional videos, telling you this company is so amazing and you have a privilege to work there, which all cost exorbitant amounts of money, how about a freaking RAISE?! This company used to care about quality, now all it is is NUMBERS, so the managers can get a bonus, which they will do anything to get I might add(pass a defective car, etc.) Quality is something that is important to me and every customer that steps into a CarMax. We have a saying whenever someone asks how you are when working there, you say "just another day in paradise." In my mind, every day there is a day in hell. Until the greedy, grimy, stingy, counter-productive jokers we call corporate figure it out, I will continue to speak badly about this place. I can't wait to leave.

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