Pros: Great office and location in Copley Sq.

Cons: The worst tech-stack for an engineer. Management here is the most incompetent you will ever see. Most of the engineering managers here cannot survive outside or clear an interview for a lower-level role. * Zero transparency and crap loads of politics

Pros: When I joined, I was focused on growing my people skills in an effort to become a more well-rounded engineer. Wayfair has proven to be a great place for growing these skills due to the large number of teams and high levels of collaboration we do on a day-to-day basis. Before joining, I was worried that moving from a smaller company to a larger one would leave me bored and pigeonholed into a specific role that didn't allow for learning and career development. I've found that my fears were completely unfounded. I've worked on amazing projects that I just wouldn't have worked on outside of Wayfair. Some of these projects fell into my lap, and others were ideas I had about how to improve some developer or user experience.

Cons: No company is completely perfect, and no one company can be a perfect fit for everyone. It's also hard to know if you'd enjoy another company more than the one you're at. I don't see any major red flags here, however. This is the best company I've ever worked for.

Pros: Great engineers; some room for growth depending on the team. A good place to learn how to build apps that scale. Free snacks and beer.

Cons: Overtly biased towards extroverts. If you know how to sell your work and yourself, then you will shine! If you don't, even if you contribute a ton, nobody cares. Some of the organizational teams are incompetent to the core. For example, the hiring team forgot that I was joining on my join date. They haphazardly completed my onboarding and made multiple mistakes while filling in my job title, immigration status, and financial information. This gave me a really hard time later on because this blunder resulted in me having to pay back the IRS a huge sum later in the tax season. Not getting onboarded on time, I didn’t have my laptop with me for the whole of the first week and felt unproductive. The incorrect immigration data also gave me grief while I was setting up my brokerage account, which took months thanks to Wayfair’s onboarding team. Open office is super noisy. So if you decide to work here, please invest in noise-canceling headphones, unless you are prepared to listen to how much someone enjoyed their avocado toast. I personally don’t care how much they enjoyed it. Meetings, meetings, meetings. So many meetings! Product management is not great! For example, many product managers do not know the first thing about the platform (which they should know). Some of them also happen to be fresh out of college. This being the case, engineers need to work extra hard to explain even simple things to them. Also, many of the bigger teams are poorly managed, and senior engineers are expected to fill in for deficiencies in management.