Amazing place to work - Senior Software Engineer CarMax Employee Review

5.0
Jun 8, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

CarMax is the best place I've worked in my 25 year career. In the Technology dept, it's a very low pressure environment with high work satisfaction. Teams are autonomous and can free to make decisions about process, tech stack, and even the direction they'd like to take the product. Good benefits, bonuses, stock grants, summer hours and unlimited PTO.

Cons

A lot of teams are on outdated tech stacks.

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5.0
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Pros

Amazing benefits with 6% 401k matching and tuition reimbursement.

Cons

Highly reliant on the quality of management at the store location.

1.0
May 31, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Remote work, first 2 weeks of the 2 month training, offers sick time before PTO rolls in

Cons

Little to no worklife balance, toxic positivity (like when they called the meeting about taking away our bonuses “exciting news” and tried to gaslight us as to why this was a good thing), extreme micromanagement, listening to our headsets constantly without us knowing, AI rating our metrics, unrealistic expectations, you basically do 4 jobs in one (at Carvana, appraisals / selling, financial applications and documents / EPUs, sales and customer service were ALL DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS.

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