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Why does an online car webpage need 18k+ employees? I don't get why they are so huge in employees.

jchonphoenix 4y ago
Carvana likely has very few engineers. Most of the employees are in operations facilitating car purchasing, inspecting, pricing, etc.
thatguy0900 4y ago
The engineers make a fuss when you ask them to clean and appraise cars and make the website at the same time
- orangepurple 4y ago
  Kids these days...
- sumtechguy 4y ago
  Rather detail a car sometimes than deal with Jira.
dangrossman 4y ago
The webpage is the simplest part of the business. They need drivers to pick up and deliver cars from every address in the nation. They have a fleet of hundreds of custom car-hauling trucks to maintain. They inspect, appraise, repair, detail and take 3D photographs of half a million cars a year -- that's thousands of mechanics, detailers, photographers. They deal with vehicle registration, state inspections and titling in 50 different states and all the 3000+ counties within. At any given time they have 50-100K vehicles all around the country to track, with lots of them in motion at any given time, a big 24/7 logistics and regulatory problem.
- kotaKat 4y ago
  I'd be curious to see what amount of the staff is actually lost and from what divisions. I doubt it'll be anyone working on the actual vehicle side of the business. Carvana is a DriveTime spinoff, and leverages their existing infrastructure for all used vehicle processing -- massive warehouse-style facilities designed to process those vehicles as rapidly as possible and stage them around.
- BillSaysThis 4y ago
  Not every address in the nation. No availability in Hawaii, at least not on the Big Island.
plgonzalezrx8 4y ago
Bro, are you kidding me? How the cars get to the dealers? How is the inventory managed? Delivered? Purchased? Service Centers? Customer Service? Legal? Etc etc etc.... Its not "Just a website" and your incredible oversimplification is atrocious.

Carvana likely has very few engineers. Most of the employees are in operations facilitating car purchasing, inspecting, pricing, etc.

thatguy0900 4y ago

The engineers make a fuss when you ask them to clean and appraise cars and make the website at the same time

orangepurple 4y ago
Kids these days...
sumtechguy 4y ago
Rather detail a car sometimes than deal with Jira.

dangrossman 4y ago

The webpage is the simplest part of the business. They need drivers to pick up and deliver cars from every address in the nation. They have a fleet of hundreds of custom car-hauling trucks to maintain. They inspect, appraise, repair, detail and take 3D photographs of half a million cars a year -- that's thousands of mechanics, detailers, photographers. They deal with vehicle registration, state inspections and titling in 50 different states and all the 3000+ counties within. At any given time they have 50-100K vehicles all around the country to track, with lots of them in motion at any given time, a big 24/7 logistics and regulatory problem.

kotaKat 4y ago
I'd be curious to see what amount of the staff is actually lost and from what divisions. I doubt it'll be anyone working on the actual vehicle side of the business. Carvana is a DriveTime spinoff, and leverages their existing infrastructure for all used vehicle processing -- massive warehouse-style facilities designed to process those vehicles as rapidly as possible and stage them around.
BillSaysThis 4y ago
Not every address in the nation. No availability in Hawaii, at least not on the Big Island.

plgonzalezrx8 4y ago

Bro, are you kidding me? How the cars get to the dealers? How is the inventory managed? Delivered? Purchased? Service Centers? Customer Service? Legal? Etc etc etc.... Its not "Just a website" and your incredible oversimplification is atrocious.