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The technology is a sketch of hell, and the culture is akin

PHP Developer
Former Employee
Worked at Wayfair for 1 year
January 26, 2019
Berlin, Germany
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros
  • If you don't care about diet, they offer tons of sweets and other crap.
  • The compensation is quite good if you count the company shares together.
  • They have some bonuses you can give to your colleagues as a reward, a quite nice way to show appreciation.
Cons

The code quality is the worst I've ever worked with, built mostly by new graduates. They compensate for the bad performance by ditching buckets of money into datacenter power.

There's a remarkable turnover of employees, leaving mostly between two and six months after they get in touch with it.

The codebase is 15 years old, having undergone two automated language translations.

They reinvent the wheel everywhere in-house instead of using well-known development and process tools.

The development process is ridiculous, sometimes taking over four hours to deploy something because of conflicts (1000 devs working on a monolith of 2GB (!) of text code).

At least on my team, management was insignificant and not engaging at all.

There was no team spirit, more like a bunch of mercenary dudes doing their time for the money at the end of the month.

Advice to Management

Go get some training on engaging and inspiring people. Step down from your altars. You're no better than anybody else in the room just because of your position title.

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