How bad is working at carmax in 2026 vs 2016

I worked at a carmax for about a year before going back to my real dealership job in 2015-2016. Carmax back then was funny, Essentially got roped in by selling a car to a manager at Carmax at my dealership i was at a few years after high school, went to Carmax heard all this BS about how getting into carmax was like the Yale of car dealerships. This is actually what store manager and a few other people in management positions said. Unfortunately, everything was BS. Store was a mess, sales people where crooks stealing customers from eachother & hiding cars...storys could go on. Nobody in sales made a penny compared to the dealer I was working at. Every once in a while i see posts come up in this carmax group, wondering how bad it has gotten because it was terrible in 2016. At the dealer I was at, four of us guys fresh out of high school ((between 0-3 years) where cracking 75-100k a year with no customer base yet .....in 2015/16.....while at carmax the sales guys where all starving and didn't have much. Just wondering exactly how it could be worse now

Posted Apr 3, 2026, 4:06 AM UTC

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