Really Impressed - Anonymous employee CARVANA Employee Review

5.0
Sep 9, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I moved to Arizona from NYC and wasn't sure what to expect from the companies in Phoenix. After about five weeks at Carvana, I am really impressed with the culture and the caliber of people working here. "Startup" culture can mean a lot of things, but at Carvana it seems to mean that: -everyone is learning as they go and collaborating to make sure that a variety of perspectives go into decisions -you need to be autonomous; no one is going to hold your hand or ask you if you completed your work. It's important to be a self-starter and rise to challenges -leadership is incredibly smart and (luckily) honest about the ambiguity of the company's future growth. It's evident that the company is doing well and will only get bigger, but the rate of that growth is pretty up in the air and flexible.

Cons

As I mentioned before, you need to be a go-getter to love this environment. If you like to do things rather than talk about doing things, you'll love it here. It's not the right environment for anyone looking to be given praise at the completion of every task, but when you really contribute everyone notices and thanks you for being proactive.

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* Corporate roles offer flexibility, and no one micromanages how you structure your 8-hour day. * Good holiday schedule and work-life balance if you’re in the right role.

Cons

No clear vision or long-term strategy for the Safe & Secure department. * Constant reorganizations and changing priorities. * Positions eliminated, reinstated, and eliminated again. * No stability or clear career path. * Lack of structure and accountability. * “Blind leading the blind” culture. * Chronic understaffing. * Employees expected to do the work of two or three people. * No additional compensation for increased workload. * Leadership’s answer to resource constraints is to “be scrappy.” * High levels of burnout. * Extremely low morale. * Significant loss of talent and leadership. * Employees quitting without another job lined up due to poor working conditions. * Operations Center dismantled, relocated, and then effectively rebuilt again with no clear strategic reason. * Experienced employees terminated, only to recreate similar functions later. * Loss of institutional knowledge. * Frequent reactive decisions instead of proactive planning. * Constant uncertainty creates stress and uneasiness. * Lack of confidence in leadership direction. * Heavy workload with limited support. * Minimal investment in retaining top performers. * Environment not conducive to building a long-term career.

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