Pros
The casual dress code is a plus. The people you work with are very friendly and easy to get along with.
Kontras
The recruiting team is very green, which can be a positive/negative thing. If you have prior recruiting experience, you’ll end up feeling frustrated by the enormous amount of admin work, the little to no actual talent evaluation you do, and the caliber of candidates you work with everyday. (It is solely volume based recruiting for the call center, so if the candidate has a pulse and can pass a computer assessment then you send them through to the hiring manager.) If you don’t have any experience, you won’t realize that you are more of a glorified recruiting coordinator vs an actual recruiter. If you remotely enjoyed, or were successful in external/agency recruiting, the tedious admin work and boredom will be brutal. Would not recommend to someone looking to make a career in recruiting.
Pros
- Extremely bright and talented colleagues, and supportive managers - Highly supportive of internal mobility - Incredible learning opportunities - you get much bigger scope at Wayfair than you would at other companies at the same level (this is true from entry level all the way up), and a lot of autonomy to drive meaningful progress and make an impact
Kontras
-Required 4 days in office
Pros
Wayfair is a fantastic company if you're a software engineer who's looking to keep quiet, and not speak up when management treats you like garbage. And it excels at finding leaders who are willing to go the extra mile to be untrustworthy and make you feel like your job isn't safe (and for real, it's not).
Kontras
Let's talk. The company has been growing like crazy, and one thing that was never thought about was "can we actually hire at a sustainable rate, and scale accordingly?" The answer was no on both counts. Software engineers at Wayfair have a history of disappearing. People who enter labs have an especially low success rate (70% make it through, and less than 50% last a whole year). It's basically their way to run people through a burnout gauntlet, and see who survives. And then you have the stories of the people who come in to work and are just asked to resign. You'll see hints of it here on Glassdoor if you dig, and it's even worse than what you read. They actually gathered all the engineers for a big meeting at the beginning of this year. And they said that they were sorry that people felt scared and were sad that people felt like management didn't care. Which is exactly how we felt. They promised that their door was open, and they were going to work hard to set things right. One person out of 500 stood up and asked a really cutting question. AND THEN THEY FIRED HIM! And there were 3 completely different official reasons given about it. It's crazy. The leaders also started up an engineering meeting to keep everyone on the same page and answer anonymous questions. One time someone asked why we couldn't get snow days off, because it was tough to shovel for 3 to 4 hours and still work an 8 hour day. So the leaders proceeded to talk down to us and reprimand us for even thinking about asking a question like this. Turnover has been high over the past year, and the best people are leaving. This worries management, but they still have no idea that the problem is actually them creating a terrible environment. So if you're a good person who cares about the person next to you and leaving things better than you found them, don't bother applying here. But if you're not, and you just want to keep your head down and not question anything, then this is the perfect place for you. And if that's what you want, Wayfair gets 5 stars. Amazing career opportunities if you want to have the same job forever. Incredible senior management that value untrustworthiness. A fantastic culture of watching people next to you disappear. It's truly a perfect company.