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      Senior Software Developer Interview

      13 Nov 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at CarMax in Nov 2020

      Interview

      Phone screening with recruiter - 15 minutes. They ask about your technical background, what you’re currently working on and what you want in your next role. Phone screening with IT manager and technical lead - 30 minutes. They ask technical questions. Online personality test with an IQ logical task composed of geometric shapes. Three back-to-back Microsoft Teams video calls with a 10-minute break in between. 50-minute Microsoft Teams video call with Senior Software Engineer and Lead Software Developer. They ask technical questions for the first half. The latter half they ask you to write a method (you share your screen) that, when given a collection of Cars which includes Make, Model, and MPG, returns the average MPG for a given Make. 50-minute Microsoft Teams video call with Product Manager and UX Lead. They ask questions around your experience. Be sure to have examples ready of how you interfaced with other teams, your experience with product deliverables and any challenges you overcame. 50-minute Microsoft Teams video call with two Senior Managers. They ask scripted behavioral based questions. Be ready to answer the questions with specific examples on the topics of Courageous Leadership, Teamwork, Analysis and Decision Making, Communication, Customer Service, Results Focus, Associate Development and Functional Expertise.

      Interview questions [8]

      Question 1

      Q: What is the difference between get, post and put?
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      Question 2

      Q: What is dot net core middleware?
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      Question 3

      Q: What are the service lifetimes within .net dependency injection?
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      Question 4

      Q: What are the solid design principles?
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      Question 5

      Q: What is the difference between iqueryable and ienumerable?
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      Question 6

      Q: What is object relational mapping?
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      Question 7

      Q: What is remote procedure call?
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      Question 8

      Q: What is representational state transfer?
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      Other Senior Software Developer interview reviews for CarMax

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      26 Mar 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Richmond, VA
      Declined offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at CarMax (Richmond, VA) in Oct 2024

      Interview

      It consists of both technical and behavioral rounds. The technical round will have an algorithm to solve as well. The tech stack is mostly .Net and most of the questions are around .Net, DI, Azure, Deployment and algorithms. The interviews are normally arund an hour.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Dependency Injection and why is it needed.
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      Sr. Software Engineer Interview

      13 Nov 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at CarMax in Nov 2023

      Interview

      Process goes: Interview with a recruiter whom preps you for all the other interviews. There is a tale home assessment which is super fair. Then the technical interview with 2 devs. Solve a problem whiteboard style. Then talk about different technologies and what their use is. Recruiter was amazing and help prep me, though I freeze up so I didn't make it past the technical interview

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Variety of JavaScript and .net questions
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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      17 Jul 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Atlanta, GA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at CarMax (Atlanta, GA) in Jul 2023

      Interview

      Overall, an extremely unprofessional recruiting experience. I had a very positive impression of CarMax until the recruiting process. I applied for the position on LinkedIn, and about 30 minutes later the recruiter from CarMax texted me to set up a call for that afternoon. The agreed upon time came, and I got a text 5 minutes later stating he was running late, and we could do it at the top of the hour. The top of the hour came, and 12 minutes after the call was supposed to start, I got another text from the recruiter stating the hiring manager was pushing back my resume, questioning if I had any .net and React experience. I checked my resume, ".net" is mentioned 26 times, C# is mentioned 6 times, React is mentioned 1 time. The recruiter explicitly stated in the text, "We are a dot net shop." It appears that neither the hiring manager nor the recruiter read my resume. I clarified in text that yes, I've been working with .Net as my primary platform for long over a decade. The recruiter then set up another call for 9am the next morning. The recruiter ghosted me for the final attempt to have an initial call the following morning. I never heard from him, nor did I receive a text, even after I texted him to update my availability for the day. Note to CarMax: If you don't want to talk, that's fine, please don't waste my time, and be professional.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Never got to interview questions because, despite recruiter setting up 3 calls, I never received one of them before being ghosted.
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