Wayfair reviews

3.1

39% would recommend to a friend

(6,866 total reviews)
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Niraj Shah

28% approve of CEO

27% positive business outlook

Wayfair has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 6,866 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Wayfair employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Einzel- & Großhandel industry (3.5 stars).

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7K reviews
1.0
May 29, 2017

Not for engineers

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Pros

Developers have almost no overtime in Berlin.

Cons

Codebase from your darkest nightmares. Forget the "fancy" stuff you using daily since 2010s, you will not find it here. There will be HARDLY a chance to keep your skills up to date. Windows based developer workstations (it's tricky to get a mac unless you're writing some ios thingy). There are, in average, 2 managers for every 3 developers. Of course, bad managers (it would be too easy otherwise). Lack of vision, short term project ownership and awfully prepared tasks are included in the package. Developer (I mean all those regular dev) is responsible for making people do their work, this is called “establishing personal connections”. If a team is in trouble, no-one responsible will act unless an issue directly hurts them or your teammate starts annoyingly poke someone. Work is hardly related to engineering. Mostly it’s a matter of quickly fixing something urgent stuff here and there. No career opportunities (don't believe recruiters, there is no space to grow).

1.0
Jul 29, 2019
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Pros

In a past life, I would have said the people, but the vast majority have left due to the toxic culture created by consultants

Cons

Recruitment team does not provide adequate information on pay structure, increases, availability of coffee/ food (there generally isn't any), review cycles, etc. The senior leadership team is made up of young professionals who have only worked at wayfair, or consultants who have never worked in e-commerce. If you have any experience in e-commerce it would be ill-advised to go to a company where the leadership knows nothing about actual e-commerce. Further, your promotion and pay increase opportunities do NOT exist. They calibrate on a curve, and therefore only a small number of each team receives a pay increase once per year. This value is 2%... and that is for "exceptional performance".

2.0
Jul 31, 2017

Nice Benefits, boring job

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Pros

snacks, fruits, people, nice office

Cons

In house resources are extremely poor...everything is handled in excel and G-docs not the most efficient way to work or learn. Micromanagement all around the place. HR don't listen or care to employees voice. High Turnover, ca 1 year or less. Politics, politics and politics: you can be excellent at your job that if you don't play the politics game good you'll be out. Terrible coffee There is not much you'll be able to learn as the strategy changes too often which makes very difficult to focus on something, it is possible that you might have more than 3 different teams or managers in a really short period of time.

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