Wayfair

Business oriented - there's no engineering representation on Wayfair's leadership page!

Thrifty in spending - don't expect additional equity or any spectacular increase in your pay while you are employed here.

Absentee leadership - all decisions flow down from business without a care in the world about tech debt.

Tech debt - To give you an idea, Wayfair only has one real environment for developers, and almost all testing of features is performed in production. The cost for actually maintaining a development or staging environment is apparently too high. We'd rather have our website stop working for customers than fix a fundamental issue. But we are super business-oriented in cramming in as many features as possible!

Quantity over quality in code - Unit tests? Linting? They're turned off because engineering leadership decided that the key metric to target is increased speed to output.

Quantity over quality in engineers - The median tenure is under a year, and the turnover is extremely high. Absolute zero value is placed on time at Wayfair.

Stop selling new recruits that Wayfair is a tech company until engineering is represented on the leadership page.

Go after quality rather than quantity with engineers.

Tackle longstanding issues with tech debt by promoting a culture of higher code quality, with a strong directive from upper management rather than paying lip service to the underlying fundamental issues.