Move fast with no direction or destination
Move fast with no direction or destination
Amazing people.
Wayfair does an amazing job hiring smart and fun people.
You will also get to work with lots of technology very quickly that looks great on your resume.
Management does not know about management.
Lower levels have clear paths of professional development, but the more senior you get (level 2 up), the more quickly those paths vanish. They do not negotiate, and pay is well below industry.
Internal promotions happen, but rarely off-cycle or before one year is up, and they never quite get to the same level as those hired externally.
Great engineers don't make great managers.
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Senior Software Engineer
Received a call from a recruiter that lasted about one hour. She went on and on discussing the company; it sounded like they are having a tough time attracting people, perhaps due to a bad work-life balance. She kept giving me the runaround when I
SDE-2
I had four rounds: screening, OOD, behavioral, and System Design. The only catch was that the System Design round was architectural level, wherein we were expected to draw class diagrams, database schemas, and UML diagrams, etc.
Software Engineer
The process consisted of three parts: * An informational phone interview * A 24-hour coding project * A technical interview with live coding For the coding project, it had been a while since I had used Java, but the interviewer was very nice about
Senior Software Engineer
Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesJuly 1, 2021Received a call from a recruiter that lasted about one hour. She went on and on discussing the company; it sounded like they are having a tough time attracting people, perhaps due to a bad work-life balance. She kept giving me the runaround when I
SDE-2
Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesJune 3, 2025I had four rounds: screening, OOD, behavioral, and System Design. The only catch was that the System Design round was architectural level, wherein we were expected to draw class diagrams, database schemas, and UML diagrams, etc.
Software Engineer
Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesMay 1, 2016The process consisted of three parts: * An informational phone interview * A 24-hour coding project * A technical interview with live coding For the coding project, it had been a while since I had used Java, but the interviewer was very nice about
