CarMax reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(8,202 total reviews)
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Keith Barr

55% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

CarMax has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 8,202 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CarMax employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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8K reviews
1.0
Jan 31, 2020

Sr. Sales

Recommend
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Pros

Benefits, good people to work with sometimes.

Cons

The current CEO is changing a lot of policies where most of the high paid employees start to quit so he can make more money out of stocks. Blood sucking methods to hate your job and quit to higher a new crew who doesn’t know better. Old values gone. Very disappointed

2.0
Jan 16, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

You meet awesome customers and have cool sales associates.

Cons

Everything else. It is managed by children who do not have a good work ethic. And god forbid if your manager is young, they will make the schedule that will only benefit them. There is no wonder why the office lost 5 people in two weeks. We are understaffed and the training process take too much time with managers wh cry about every little thing.

1.0
Jan 8, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

When I started in was a fairly good place to get a feel for the car business with some training and good customer opportunities

Cons

The pay was always low by car industry standards and if you wanted to make a career of car sales moving to a traditional dealer was always necessary. But omni channel will make working at Carmax not even worthwhile. First, it's a horrible fragmented experience for the customer who will first talk to some minimum wage call center employee that knows nothing about the business. The customer will then be pressured into an "express pick up." With this option Carmax doesn't pay it's salespeople anything, instead trying to force low paid hourly employees to be car salespeople. If that fails the customer will arrive for an appointment, only to discover the car they thought was on hold for them wasn't, and all the time they spend on the phone was a waste of time because they have to be sat at a desk wherein the sales person has to go back over everything they discussed with the call center. For this great help the sales person looses half their commission and the customer is set up for a redundant frustrating experience. It sucks for the hourly employees being pulled outside their role for no extra pay, it sucks for sales people that are loosing half their paychecks, and it's frustrating for the customer.

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