Wayfair

• Good pay for some levels. If you are high enough, you will be satisfied.

This is also visible during quarterly surveys. Guys with level 5+ are very glad to work at Wayfair.

• They try to improve our life, but...

• Extremely hard to grow. See pros point about level 5+. It is impossible to grow to this level without nepotism.

Wayfair hires 5+ only externally, and this is not fair. As a result, people are leaving.

"We will hire more HR guys to cover this loss" – a nice answer from a top company manager.

• Performance review – good to see this show, but not to participate.

• The company and infrastructure are trying to build a self-service infrastructure. Now, this aspect is better than several years ago. However, this self-service is strange, and to get there, you have to spend tons of time and submit a lot of tickets.

Even having self-service, your application is sitting on top of the common infrastructure, and if something is broken (often the case), your app is affected too, and it is hard to recognize what is going on.

• People who are the progress pushers and who can say "NO" are leaving this company. People who are silenced and who are looking for a new opportunity to leave still are working here.

This situation further degrades the quality of services. Oh, yes, I forgot. Levels 5+ still are working here happily. They talk a lot ("Blah blah blah"), but results are not impressive.

Which advice can we give to the gang of managers?

Share the power or leave!

Even you, readers, are smiling now...