Is CARVANA a good company to work for?

CARVANA has an overall rating of 2.8 out of 5, based on over 3,222 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 7% over the last 12 months. 37% of employees would recommend working at CARVANA to a friend and 38% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about CARVANA have been left by employees working as Associate Director , Field Advocate and Engineer .

Does CARVANA pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, CARVANA employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.2 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at CARVANA. This rating has decreased by 3% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at CARVANA?

37% of CARVANA employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated CARVANA 2.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 2.9 for culture and values and 2.7 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at CARVANA?

Customer Advocate (373) , Customer Advocate II (127) , Team Lead (106) , Customer Service Representative (71) , Inventory Associate (67) , Lot Attendant (67) , Verification Advocate (56) , Underwriter (49) , Verification Specialist (45) , Customer Advocate I (44) , Registration Specialist (34) , Verifications Advocate (34) , Senior Advocate (33) , Technician (33) , Recruiter (32)

What are the pros of working at CARVANA according to real employee reviews?

"Benefits are great and cheap" ((in 410 reviews)); "Pay was good until I got out and realized I was severely underpaid for my job duties." ((in 206 reviews)); "Great Company and Culture." ((in 189 reviews)); "People are great and helpful inside your dept." ((in 186 reviews)); "Met some great coworkers here." ((in 73 reviews))

What are the cons of working at CARVANA according to real employee reviews?

"Poor management with little understanding about the work itself and poor training" ((in 266 reviews)); "You will never get out of work on time and will have no work life balance because things never go as planned." ((in 78 reviews)); "You get thrown into approving if someone is getting a car or not with no training on their program software." ((in 67 reviews)); "We had massive layoffs and lost tons of valuation in the stock market in a short amount of time." ((in 63 reviews)); "They hired some really bad managers." ((in 54 reviews))

What are employees saying about CARVANA layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about CARVANA layoffs and their outlook for job security at CARVANA in 2026.

What are the top reviewed CARVANA locations?

Tempe , Phoenix , Winder , Atlanta , Blue Mound , Tolleson , Indianapolis , Concord , Delanco , Houston , Haines City , Oklahoma City , Nashville , Greenfield , Fort Worth , Heath , Los Angeles , West Memphis , Memphis , Elyria , Milwaukee , Scottsdale , Las Vegas , Philadelphia , Orlando , Chicago , Austin , Cleveland , Jacksonville , Tampa

CARVANA reviews

2.8

37% would recommend to a friend

(3,172 total reviews)

Ernie Garcia

50% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.4

Diversity & inclusion

3.2

Compensation and benefits

2.9

Culture & values

2.8

Work/Life balance

2.7

Career opportunities

2.5

Senior management

CARVANA has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 3,172 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The CARVANA employee rating is 21% below average for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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3K reviews

5.0

Jan 28, 2015

Friendly, growing company on the rise.

Anonymous employee

Recommend

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Pros

Carvana, provides a work life balance. Creating a employee oriented environment. Providing professional expertise and career development.

Cons

Second chances are far and few between, everyone makes mistakes. When a mistake is made at Carvana it is unforgivable.

5.0

Jan 14, 2014

Carvana is a fun, interesting, and challenging (in the right way) place to work

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of responsibility for everyone. The ability to impact important decisions. Working for a company that is actually trying to do something different and that believes in what it is doing.

Cons

Start-ups seem like nothing but romance and glamour from the outside, but the reality is it takes a certain type of personality to thrive in an environment as dynamic as Carvana. For the right people, it is awesome.

5.0

Jan 14, 2014

Great place to be a developer

Software development lead

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

You get to work with new technology like azure, typescript, less, css3, html5, canvas, knockout and really smart people as well. Most of the work is done on a public website and is very easy to show off to friends and family which is a plus. Carvana is situated at DriveTime's corporate offices and shares the open floor area with Go Financial and DriveTime. All of the developers and other staff from the 3 companies intermingle as if they were one big company. This is great because there are a ton of extremely brilliant developers employed between those 3 companies. A great deal of attention is paid to the hiring of developers so every developer they employ is very smart, helpful and easy to work with. Another interesting aspect of this mix is that they interface with the other businesses via WCF so its the feel of a startup company but with some of the established systems of a mature one. This leads to a really interesting mix of work. All 3 companies are very much agile and 100% bought into using KanBan, digital boards and regular stand ups and retros and have been doing so for years.

Cons

Work can be fast paced at times which can lead to a bad work/life balance, but that is up to you, its definitely not forced. It tends to be easy to slip into that pattern with the combination of the fast pace and the fact that you're working on fun projects. This is only a con for people who have a tendency to allow a poor work life balance though. Not everyone has an issue with that, especially since its not forced.

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