Pros: Interesting work, opportunities if you take advantage of them or seek them out.

Cons: Historically, there has been little investment in career development.

Pros: I've been at Wayfair for several years, and the company supports a great work/life balance, is open to ideas from employees, and makes an effort to make the workplace a fun place to be. I'm especially proud of Wayfair for the way they've supported me through some serious medical issues. They've been understanding about insurance needs, scheduling, and making sure I'm in a position where I can do interesting and useful work while fully attending to my health needs during a rough time. Honestly, I can't imagine being in a more supportive environment!

Cons: Nothing that you don't find at any company. Wayfair has grown a lot since I've been here, and while there are always changes that come with growth, I think the culture has been retained much better than I expected.

Pros: Pay is actually pretty good if you're a more experienced hire. HR/management realizes that they need to jack up the pay scale if they want to attract the more tenured crowd. Good shares package for engineering (stock grants, not stock options, so might be actually worth something if the company goes public).

Cons: I think as a recent trend, Wayfair actually offers a pretty good, or at least market compensation package with stock grants vested over time (which might be actually worth something, given the company has filed with the SEC for IPO) for experienced folks in engineering, but not for their college hires. Nonetheless, I'd still dissuade experienced folks from joining. Why? Your career stagnation and personal frustration won't be worth it. First, Wayfair skimps on holidays standard to other companies. So mark off at least 5 days off from your PTO package because you won't have MLK Day, President's Day, etc. Second, as other reviewers have said before, the technology stack at Wayfair is very outdated. Your day-to-day work, if assigned to the backend inventory teams, will be maintaining a lot of verbose and spaghetti-code stored procedures in MS-SQL and editing simple .net web services. Your day-to-day work, if assigned to Storefront, will be mostly fighting fires in a bloated PHP stack where most methods and libraries are written in procedural code, implementing marketing-driven tickets such as "adding a new copy-text" to this page or tracking some variable in A/B testing. Wayfair Engineering blog promotes itself as a place that uses cutting-edge technology such as Solr, machine-learning with Python, real-time task processing, etc. All of those work belong to the Search/Data Sciences team, a small team within Storefront. So unless you get hired into Data Sciences (Python, machine learning, distributed systems) or the Mobile Team (JS MVC frameworks, Objective-C), I'd stay away, as the rest of Storefront is plain procedural PHP from 2004. They have a very strict code review process where you have to get your code approved by a reviewer, sometimes multiple, if it involves, say, both PHP and Javascript. In practice, this means more refactoring of your code and tracking down people and going back and forth, as that process can go several rounds. There are no QA engineers, nor a suitable staging environment to support you and truly test your code in a quasi-production environment. So you are alone responsible for pushing out code and, for whatever reason, bugs happened, stuck fighting fires on the day of push, aka test-in-production, or worse, several days if issues occur intermittently. The project managers, in general, are foot soldiers in carrying out marketing and upper-management directives under the tyranny of agile methodology, and aren't vested with enough power to push back or do any true shielding for engineers on their team. You can read more into the actual cultural and management style of the company in the other reviews, which I can confirm as well (basically, the culture attracts the type of people who enjoy the HBO show Silicon Valley but don't understand the irony behind it and think it's actually cool). But I want to give a day-to-day account of the actual coding experience at Wayfair, which is extremely frustrating. I'd advise job candidates to consider how much they'd like to work in a procedural PHP or exclusively with MS-SQL stored procedures.