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.

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

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.

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