DO NOT interview with these hacks.
1. Their salary is low compared to rest of industry.
2. You will go through rounds and rounds of case interviews that have nothing to do with the job. First round, case. Next round, 2 cases + behavioral, last round, case. Some rounds they expect for you to do everything mentally, no calculator allowed. If you like doing high school math you have touched in years this is the perfect job for you. It doesn't test for a good candidate, they're looking for someone who recently took algebra 2. They really think they're geniuses who hire "geniuses" when in reality their core business is running a retail car dealership.
3. "Remote" is fake they will ask you to relocate to Richmond, who wants to do that?
4. I'm convinced that they're not actually hiring for any corporate roles, same roles have been available for years now.
STAY AWAY.
Have only done the first round which is a very straightforward HR Screening, waiting for the next rounds though. Seems very focused on culture and willingness to be in Richmond.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at CarMax in Aug 2025
Interview
Call with recruiter, one case and a couple behavioral in first interview, then 2 more cases and behavioral in super day. Overall 5 hours of interviewing. Pretty much the same experience as everyone else, one interviewer didn’t show then had to reschedule and find a way to squeeze in later in the day. Job is listed as Dallas, Atlanta, and Richmond. Interviewers checked out when I said I wanted to work in Atlanta not Richmond. Overall weird, had one interviewer give me his background for 15 minutes then tell me “don’t tell me about your background you can do that in the other interviews.” All interviewers had been with the company for 15+ years and seemed a bit insecure about it to be honest. Also could not figure out what the job was, super vague posting, asked questions about the job and they never told me what the specific role was. Really weird. Anyways good practice.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Bridge, break even car loan interest, and 100 paintings.
It started out with a initial call with the recruiter to see if it was a good fit. Then it went straight to a case with someone currently in that department. They made you do mental math without a calculator, with someone with many years of professional experience in advanced math and analytics I found it silly to have to preform mental math when I have spent years using R, SQL and Excel. I also found it a little strange that this position has been posted for over 2 years... Clearly they don't really want anyone in this role. This is Carmax and not a FANNG company and they should start acting like it.