Wayfair

• Met some pretty incredible people at the company, outside of my team.
• Free snacks and drinks.

• Micromanagement style
• Incompetent engineering managers - This is pretty true throughout most teams. The majority of my peers left Wayfair because they hated it.
• Not much diversity
• Hire a bunch of entry-level engineers to meet a quota and qualify for the tax break, to later have them laid off. Letting go 500+ people. Not much integrity.

Just because you have a lot of years of being an engineer doesn't make you a qualified/good manager.

HR should provide training to technical leads/managers. Also, teach them what's appropriate behavior and language at work.

For example, asking someone's age is no longer acceptable at work.

Don't undermine your employee if they don't have a computer science background, or harass them until they feel overwhelmed and don't want to show up to work.