Wayfair reviews

Employees are put under extreme pressure to perform. You will most likely be overworked. It is unusual for employees to last for 2 years in this company. They will tell you that they only employ the very best. If you are not performing above average, the risk that you will lose your job is high. About half of the employees are in a constant state of fear, because they do not fall into the "above average" category. Even in teams where a manager or senior manager believes that their employees are meeting expectations, they will be put under pressure to downgrade someone, because performance is graded on a curve. They see this turnover to be healthy. Many foreigners are hired, and their visas depend on their employment contracts, so when Wayfair lets them go at the end of their 6-month probation period, there are very few options available to them within Germany. Merchandising and Talent have very low satisfaction ratings by their employees, because of boring, repetitive work. The employee turnover rate here is extremely high.

- the code quality is the worst I've ever worked with, built mostly by newly graduates. they compensate the bad performance by ditching buckets of money in datacenter power - there's a remarkable turnover of employees leaving mostly between 2 and 6 months after they get in touch with it - codebase is 15 years old having overgone 2 automated language translations - they reinvent the wheel everywhere in-house instead of using well known development and processes tools - the development process is ridiculous, sometimes taking over 4 hours to deploy something because of conflicts (1000 devs working on a monolith of 2Gb (!) of text code) - at least on my team, management was insignificant and not engaging at all - there was no team spirit, more like a bunch of mercenary dudes doing their time for the money in the end of the month