It's a stressful environment, but fun place to work. - Business Office Associate CarMax Employee Review

4.0
15 Oct 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You meet some of the most amazing people. They're caring, funny, and what make you love coming back every day. The benefits were good. They'll have meetings, and if you're even able to attend, they give away food and prizes. Managers are willing to help you with work life balance for sure. They have grants to help you if your family needs it. If you ask for work opportunities, they'll help you, but be aware...they MAY use you to benefit their business first.

Cons

Scheduling was horrible. How did we have 3 people scheduled until 1pm, but still expected to get our personal assigned work done, on top of giving great customer service. The managers/leads are great at telling you to do something, but they don't take the initiative to do things themselves. Then they'll ask why you're stressed. Your opinion does not matter. The business office helps every single department. 1. Makes the worst pay in the building. 2. Constantly disrespected by Sales managers and their consultants. 3. They're quick to tell you what you do wrong, and not what you excel at. Oh and 4. The service advisors will tell their customers to come after hours, but there's a major issue not disclosed...so guess who gets screamed and yelled at by a person who we know nothing about. Advisors make the good money but horrible at communicating and customer service.

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Cons

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4.0
13 June 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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