MarineMax reviews

3.5

49% would recommend to a friend

(187 total reviews)
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Brett McGill

62% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

MarineMax has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 187 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The MarineMax 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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187 reviews
3.0
Mar 1, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of inventory. Okay benefits.

Cons

GM’s are primadonnas with no clue how to manage the business or its people, upper management more focused on the shareholders, customers don’t matter, dramatic working environment where you’re always looking over your shoulder. Pricing structure is overthought and not efficient and the margin is diluted resulting in the inability to take trades. Management attitude is that they are bigger and better than everyone else, resulting in inflated egos and lost customer retention. Salespeople suffer due to constantly changing comp structures and managements inability to effectively structure a deal properly. End result is loss of experienced and proficient team members as well as rainmaking sales performers.

2.0
Sep 12, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Large company with numerous resources one can use for personal development. 2. Good benefits, 401K, PTO 3. Potential to be a fun work environment and get to enjoy taking boats out on the water and participate in customer boating excursions 4. Good brands to sell: Sea Ray, Boston Whaler, Bayliner, Nautique, Cabo yachts... 5. Good use of CRM to help sales associates organize customers 6. If your location is lucky enough to have a delivery captain, this person acts as terrific PR for your product, and can be an invaluable resource to new boaters 7. Great customer care and introduction to boating

Cons

Note: Each of the 50 plus MarineMax stores in the U.S. is run by a manager. These stores are separated by regional groups with executive level management in charge of each region. Because of the way the company works, the experiences of one location's employees can vary largely from another's based on the way each manager chooses to run the location. During my time at MarineMax, I worked in a struggling location under unstable management. If you consider working here, make sure to consider how stable that location is before choosing to work there. In my experience: 1. New sales associates not properly trained to be successful 2. Management not trained enough to help employees succeed 3. Expectation to work long hours for weeks on end 4. Work more important than personal life, important family events 5. Managers will often get involved in deals to get a boat sold... this can very negatively affect commission even when managers make mistakes on the deal 6. Minimal pre-owned inventory, boats on lot not what customers looking for, so difficult to sell 7. More interested in making the sell than customer care after the sale

3.0
Nov 12, 2015

Fun to be around boats but not for a living!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Going out on boats during the work day! Commissions can be decent if you have a nice brokerage deal and/ or new bigger boat deal. Definitely the right company to work for if you want to do it long term. Benefits are decent and unlike mom and pop shops, this company gives you a little base salary

Cons

Well you have to sell a lot of them :( You're expected to work A LOT.

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