Pros: The open office environment breeds quick, direct, and efficient problem-solving, coupled with a deeper team feel and an understanding of how the parts of the company function. It's a great place to meet friends.

Cons: Management shoots itself in the foot by not listening to any notes given from current unhappy employees. Wayfair hires smart, young, and motivated kids right out of college that have the capacity to function in this dynamic environment. However, we're pigeonholed by finger-pointing, low salary, and above all else, one of the highest turnover rates I've ever seen in a company. This causes so many procedures to just halt in their tracks. New hire training is constant and required due to the number of people leaving the company of their own accord. I've heard from a number of colleagues that during their exit interviews, they voice all of the problems that had obstructed them from work, however, nothing has changed. There are several bright coworkers trying desperately to make the processes better and more fluid, but they're handicapped by tenure and lack of leadership, so they become jaded.

Pros: Great work environment and work-life balance.

Cons: So many changes on the team.

Pros: Teams and working conditions at Wayfair are widely different. If you're lucky, you can be on a team where there is good work, innovation, and good team culture. This really depends on the team members and the manager. Wayfair also restructures all the time, so this won't last long. Salaries are above average, especially because of the stock options and bonus they provide. Office is in a central location, brand new, and has lots of benefits in the office.

Cons: Really too much bureaucracy, too much politics in the office. Company does not measure success or keep senior-level management accountable. So somebody or a team would be working on something that is really useless but can get promoted easily. Little after, you would see that the upper management suddenly decides to shut down that team. It does not make sense at all. In the Berlin office, there is no vision. Lots of leaders quit recently, and they were really useless. They did not do anything rather than going into endless and purposeless meetings. Wayfair is an old engineering company. When they were already big, Jira, GitHub, etc., did not exist. So they are used to reinventing the wheel. This culture is slowly changing, but it is really slow. The backend codebase is a monolith PHP app. It is really hard to decouple and practice good engineering practices. Even with brand-new projects, they don't go for third-party systems but try to build themselves. This process, of course, takes years. And as mentioned above, they shut down projects even before they finish.