Wayfair

Snacks, clean, a lot of tea. A good place for students, interns, and Wayfair bosses.

If you just finished college, you should come here and learn.

1. Wayfair infrastructure is a nightmare: a) The development environment is almost dead. b) Staging environment - never heard of it. If you ask about this, the answer is the same: "too expensive". However, they hire tons of interns and former students. As a result: spaghetti code, and we are falling deeper and deeper, like Alice towards Wonderland.

2. This company does not know what "testing" and "documentation" mean. They think this is a waste of time and money.

3. All projects are running in one "basket". If one fails or is sick, others are struggling.

Sometimes, I think this company is like a broken plane. One wing is half working, and the second is broken all the time, and people are fixing it during the flight. Bosses, aka pilots, spend time on meetings and come only when we have a "fire" on the board. These guys review usual people without knowing who is who. Reviewing is a formal voting. Based on favoritism, you see all these promotions of our bosses to bigger bosses, and that is sad.

If you read points 1-3, you should imagine what people think and have as a work/life balance. I think aircrew does not have this balance at all when the plane is on fire.

Resolution - a solid 3 stars. Come to Wayfair and work. Maybe you can change something. A firefighter is a good profession; however, I do not know if I can recommend it to my friend when you have a fire every evening.