Do not use online services - Sales Associate CarMax Employee Review

2.0
Dec 19, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Everything is great except the pay.

Cons

If you are in the market to buy a car and Carmax is on your list keep one thing in mind. If you go online to the website and request information, hold a car, transfer a car or so much as try to call the store to ask any question at all the company takes half of your sales person’s commission!! This is not a negative post just want you to know how the person that will be responsible for taking care of you and your next car is or is not getting paid. They did NOT reduce the price of the vehicles you will be considering nor will you get any other breaks in APR or service plans. That money is kept by Carmax as profit and to “expand”. Please, keep this in mind and if you would share, that would be great. I would love to see Carmax customers speak out, leave feedback on Carmax website or Facebook. If you think it’s good, say it’s good. But if you don’t, please say something. No other business that I know of cuts the employees pay because the customer called the store first or went to their website. I promise, they don’t care what the employees think, maybe they will care what their customers think.

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Pros

a people driven company that sells cars

Cons

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4.0
Jun 13, 2026
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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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