Wayfair

Free beer and massive seasonal company parties (pre-COVID). Fast-growing company, decent compensation.

As the company grew massively post-COVID, they refused to hire more developers and instead prioritized profits, saddling existing developers with more work.

Working conditions during WFH became much, much worse than in-person, with long hours expected.

The codebase was pretty bad, given how new the company was. Management prioritized rushing new features over improving the codebase and making developer life easier.

Pass on some of the huge profits made during COVID to your employees!

Help them out by hiring more people, not downsizing the engineering teams!

Also, work on prioritizing the long-term success of the company rather than demanding fast results, which causes sloppy code and poor working conditions.