Bait and switch business model - Customer Advocate I CARVANA Employee Review

2.0
May 4, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Fun work environment - Great co workers

Cons

- Management in local markets has unchecked power. - Was promised food once a week on the Hub's dime, only got it once a month at the meeting where they "layed down the law." - They promote people who suck up to Team Leads, not based on performance. - They give you more work than you can perform in an 8hr day and penalize you if you don't punch out on time by switching your days off, cutting your hours, and sending out slack message to the HUB naming you directly. - Team Leads are free to make their own rules for HUB'S that are outside of Carvana's employee handbook guidelines. - The culture and values that I was sold when I went to HQ in Tempe, were not there when I arrived at my local HUB. It was as if I was working in retail.

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