Wayfair

Foot-in-the-door, food, a decent apartment, and some spending money on a month-to-month basis in the city of Boston. Not to mention, the workplace is huge, so there are plenty of opportunities to befriend someone or just talk to someone new.

Management does what they can. In my eyes, it seems like a very unfulfilling, thankless, and volatile job to be a part of upper management. They are both needed and unneeded. The most important thing is that they help to dilute the layers of responsibility so that the engineers don't eat dirt, but they're very insecure and need to assert unnecessary things often as a result.

Chill out; there is nothing to game here other than affability. Play nice with the engineers and don't take too much credit for what you do, or you can get yourself into a toxic environment that engulfs both you and your team. If everyone likes you, you're bound to only go up.