Wayfair

Cognizance of work-life balance and mental health. Interesting engineering work, depending on the team.

Apathetic management.

Lack of transparency from management.

Hard to grow in a role and get promoted, especially from Berlin.

When employees invest so much time and effort in self-reviews, it would be nice if management actually read them in their entirety and provided actionable, constructive feedback if they disagreed with anything written.

If everything was fine and an employee self-evaluated as meeting or exceeding all L4 criteria, it would be nice to substantiate the reasons why.

Likewise, if you're already planning on hiring an L4 rather than promoting from within, be transparent and inform your direct reports. That's just utterly poor management and promotes toxicity.

Actually, on that subject: good engineers don't make good (people) managers. Full stop. Stop insisting on promoting from within engineering ranks to management, when there are so many great engineers who have no business managing people.