Great Company -- Terrible Department - Verification Team Lead CARVANA Employee Review

3.0
Aug 18, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Great benefits - Very smart individuals in other departments - Ability to grow with the company if you, as an individual, work hard to get it on your own

Cons

The cons do not lie with the company. Carvana as a whole is a great company to work for. The cons are within the Verification department mainly with the senior leadership team who were just managers when I was there. The senior leadership team could careless about their employees and only cares about how many cases the department are going through and how many calls they are answering. Work life balance? They don’t care about. Mandatory overtime that is draining everyone? You guessed it, they act like its no big deal. Its like they think their employees are robots and not actual humans. Do they try to make connections with their employees? Absolutely not. Now the senior managers. They don't even know how the verification process work yet they are running the department. Could they give you 30 min of their time a week to meet and touch base? Absolutely not. But don't worry they got promoted for a job well done. They don't communicate anything to their team leads, everyone was constantly in the dark about changes. Now pay. If you were promoted from within the company, you are making pennies compared to outside hires. Some outside hires are making 15k more than those who were promoted to Team Leads from inside the company like myself. It's absolutely insane.

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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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