CarMax reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(8,198 total reviews)
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55% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

CarMax has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 8,198 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
3.0
Dec 17, 2009

Should you work at Carmax?

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Is one of the best car dealerships to work for. The pay is above minimum wage if you do not sell any cars within the pay period. Not much pressure.

Cons

No benefits for part time employees considering it is a top 100 company to work for. Very hard to move up in the company. Management at times can be a mess. Managers play favorites and give their favorite employee easy deals. When filling out surveys from gallup management pressures employees to give all 5's. (not cool) Not a job you want to make a career.

2.0
Jul 8, 2012
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Pros

Good working environment, lot of selection for customers to choose from, hassle-free experience all around

Cons

Redundant training every day and it adds value for about the first couple of days and after that it's just really annoying. You don't feel like your opinion is valued or that anything you say will make a change. I offered a suggestion for something and was told they passed it on to the higher ups and it's been over a year and I still have yet to hear if anyone had thoughts, highly doubt at this point I will ever hear anything back. Working super long hours makes it very difficult to have personal time or ever get a break. Customers can be very nasty and don't respect your position as a commission sales consultant. Quality of vehicles has gone way down since I started 5 years ago and it just keeps getting worse. Lastly, appraisals are such a joke. If the customer doesn't like the value and give us a bad survey, we always get the line "we should be setting proper expectations....blah blah blah". The buyers never take responsibility for the number they put on the car. They also brag about having a 26% buy rate which means that if you do 800 appraisals in a month, you are buying about 200 of those vehicles which is TERRIBLE!!! They get so excited when they have a 26% buy rate and I think it's insane. No one in any other business would find that acceptable. Find a way to put more money on cars and maybe the customers would be much happier....just sayin.

3.0
Jun 4, 2012

Sales Associate 2010 - 2012

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Pros

Great team to work with--very diverse and, for the most part, extremely friendly. Got me through a rough patch--worked both full time and part time.

Cons

Extreme micromanagement on absolutely every aspect of the sales process. Managers are, for the most part, very "in the box" thinkers terrified of making a decision--example: North Austin got hit with a severe rain/wind storm and these guys made us go out and do their ridiculous "lock-ups" after the store closed while tornado warnings were up and debris was blowing all over the place because they were afraid to do the right thing and tell us to stay safely in the store.... Very hard to make more than $30K as a full timer w/o working 50 - 60 hours a week; flooding the floor prevalent as management doesn't like "wait lists". The basic full time requirement per associate is to sell about 10 cars per month with at least 50% extended service plans. This location has lost 25% of it's sales staff in the last 2 months--sales associates, including a number of long term employees in President's Club, were unable to make a living wage. Management couldn't care less...

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