Too many meetings, too many hours, not enough money! - You're Fired! CarMax Employee Review

2.0
Feb 8, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Most customers really like the no haggle pricing that CarMax offers. The sales process is easy if the customer has good credit. The dress code is really relax. This company is pretty good about working around your hours. A sales consultant at CarMax gets every 5th weekend off which is rare in retail sales.

Cons

Compensation for sales here is very small. If you want to make over $30,000 a year you HAVE to work at least 50 hours a week if not closer to 60. It is very easy to get fired, about 1 sales consultant gets fired every month. When I was hired I was told I had to sell a minimum of 6 cars a month to keep my job. That number has been moved up to 10 now. That is a store policy and not a companywide one. It is too easy to lose money at this place! Just because another sales consultant spoke to a customer within 3 days should not entitle them to half the commission! They think it is OK for Sales Consultant A to do 10 minutes of work and Sales Consultant B to do 3 hours of work and they get the same wage. That sounds like communism to me. WAY too many meetings! At least 1 a day and sometimes 2 a day. That is a lot of wasted time that you could be making calls or selling cars. They makeyou do inventory jobs that you do not get paid for every Saturday morning for an hour. They are really understaffed on Saturdays in inventory. Saturdays are the busiest day of the week! Why do they only have 3 or 4 kids prepping the cars. This makes the customer have to wait more time. The work atmosphere is so un PC it is ridiculous. That place is a sexual harassment suit waiting to happen.

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Cons

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Pros

The perks of working at CarMax are quite extensive. Associates are offered an aggressive 401k program, Stock Purchasing Plan, in store discounts on sales and service, access to the CarMax Wholesale system, excellent healthcare, plenty of PTO, and at my location we are given as much OT as we want. My coworkers are generally good people, that I enjoy being able to work along side day in and day out. Management is very understanding in regards to calling out sick family emergencies, and schedule requests.

Cons

Despite doing the work of 5 people, and very politely asking for a raise management will not give me more than my 3% annual raise which is the single biggest let down. The bonus change of 2025 being labeled as "exciting" was straight corporate gaslighting unlike anything I've ever seen. Since the start of 2026, as of this review being written we have lost 7 associates largely due to pay, and I am soon to join those associates. Management from the store level up to corporate needs to understand that to retain their top performers they need to be compensated like a top performer. Some members of management are cliquey and moody which is very frustrating to deal with. Quality of Management varies wildly from store to store as well

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