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Great experience, great work environment, mediocre compensation

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Wayfair for less than 1 year
May 18, 2009
Boston, Massachusetts
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Pros

The people who work at CSN are generally great and a lot of fun to hang out with. The benefits are also really good, and CSN works pretty hard at forming a good work/life balance. You will learn a ton during your time here, so as far as professional development goes, it's a great place to be. I definitely enjoy my job and I like coming to work every day.

Cons

Pay. It's been said many times, and it's really true: as a rule, people tend to be underpaid (in some cases, drastically so).

This is really the only major downside to working at CSN.

The company's attitude is that they can find recent college grads and pay them pennies on the dollar. People are just getting out of school and don't know what they are worth.

CSN then proceeds to give these graduates extremely dangerous skills, and in some cases has a hard time retaining their top performers as a result.

After a year or so, people begin to realize that they can get $10-20 thousand somewhere else, but don't want to leave because working at CSN is so fun.

At some point though, people have had enough, and they start to leave.

Advice to Management

Reward the employees that deserve it. You know who they are, because in general the management is competent and engaged. CSN has done quite well up until this point by pinching pennies and getting young people that excel for very little money. At some point, however, if they want to realize their goals of being as successful as Amazon, Google, or whatever, they are going to have to compensate their employees at a comparable rate to those companies.

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