Mechanic applicants have rated the interview process at CarMax with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Mechanic roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at CarMax overall takes an average of 12 days.
Common stages of the interview process at CarMax as a Mechanic according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 25%
Skills test: 25%
Presentation: 25%
Drug test: 25%
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One phone interview. Three in person interviews. Ridiculous. Big waste of time and unnecessary exposure during covid. Phone interview is the exact same first in person interview. These interviews span over the time of four weeks
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Standard hr questions, like what wast a time you used teamwork and provided customer service
Very intensive and redundant. Questions that are super corporate. Found all the questions to be cookie cutter and to the point where I found the answers they were looking for online.
I applied in-person. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at CarMax (Fayetteville, NC) in May 2015
Interview
Asked about relevant experience, asked me to speak about prior jobs. Described the working hours, and shop layout. Spoke about manager and their roles in helping the mechanics do their jobs.
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Question 1
What experience do you have repairing vehicles?
What do you do if you don’t know how to do something.