J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez CarMax en août 2025
Entretien moyen
Candidature
J'ai postulé via la recommandation d'un employé. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez CarMax en nov. 2023
Entretien
1st round: Screening call with a very impersonal HR rep
2nd round: Case interview with Sr. Manager in strategy
3rd round: Super day w/ 3 case interviews, 1 behavioral interview, and 1 interview with AVP
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
For super day, the cases consisted of...
1st case: Had to pick the most valuable painting in a series of 100 paintings, with each painting's value showing up 1 through 100. Goal is to maximize the value of the painting picked. Tested basic probability and logical reasoning.
2. Excel based interview asking for a breakeven amount of interest that Carmax should charge on loans. Also included brainstorming of characteristics that you would look for to determine if a loan applicant was more/less risky
3. BE analysis to determine incremental revenue generated by having top salesmen work weekends. Included brainstorming of ways to get the top salesmen to work weekends (e.g., give them first dibs on staffing)
Behavioral: pretty standard questions, only interviewer who seemed interested/engaged. Unique questions included "tell me about a time when you went above and beyond on customer service?" and "tell me about a time when you delivered bad news?". Interviewer asking pre-set questions from a script, so not much of a conversation.
Call with recruiter, one case and a couple behavioral in first interview, then 2 more cases and behavioral in super day. Overall 5 hours of interviewing. Pretty much the same experience as everyone else, one interviewer didn’t show then had to reschedule and find a way to squeeze in later in the day. Job is listed as Dallas, Atlanta, and Richmond. Interviewers checked out when I said I wanted to work in Atlanta not Richmond. Overall weird, had one interviewer give me his background for 15 minutes then tell me “don’t tell me about your background you can do that in the other interviews.” All interviewers had been with the company for 15+ years and seemed a bit insecure about it to be honest. Also could not figure out what the job was, super vague posting, asked questions about the job and they never told me what the specific role was. Really weird. Anyways good practice.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Bridge, break even car loan interest, and 100 paintings.
It started out with a initial call with the recruiter to see if it was a good fit. Then it went straight to a case with someone currently in that department. They made you do mental math without a calculator, with someone with many years of professional experience in advanced math and analytics I found it silly to have to preform mental math when I have spent years using R, SQL and Excel. I also found it a little strange that this position has been posted for over 2 years... Clearly they don't really want anyone in this role. This is Carmax and not a FANNG company and they should start acting like it.
Initial screen with recruiter, case interview with a manager, interview day with Sr manager or director level leaders. The interview day consisted of 2 cases and a behavioral interview. There was a 4th interview scheduled but they canceled it after the first 3.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Variation of the secretary problem. I wish I knew nothing about the problem going in though.
