Good Starter Sales Job - Sales Consultant CarMax Employee Review

4.0
Nov 19, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Good sales training for basic concepts if you've never held this type of position before. The management have it in their interest to see you succeed and give good sales frameworks to start from. You will learn a lot about customer service and the car industry by working here.

Cons

You will not be doing any negotiation and have limited to none qualifying power due to CarMax policy. You will spend a lot of time with people who do not truly want to buy and cannot turn them away directly. You will have to find creative ways to get time wasters out of the building so you can get to the customers who will actually buy.

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5.0
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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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