Wayfair reviews

Wayfair is a tennis club for privileged kids in the Boston area. A daycare for them to attend until they have their first child, their trust funds kick in, or both. Merit and hard work will not advance you here. If you're an elitist brat with a massive inferiority complex, you get to spend your days walking back and forth from Starbucks, gossiping about the co-workers you can't stand (read non-snobs), and which ski resort you visited last weekend. You don't actually do any work -- the substantive part of your days is spent in meetings writing buzzwords or venn diagrams on whiteboards. Oh, and "replying to all" emails with played out memes to praise those of the same ilk over trivial stuff. Twice a month you'll travel to one of the other offices on the company dime, to attend meetings that could have been done via Skype. But, hey, you're part of the in-crowd so you can do what you want and expense it back to the company. If you happen to be an unfortunate soul who went to college on scholarship, even a top school, you'll be micromanaged and minimized within an inch of your life. You'll be quickly made to realize you're not part of the in-crowd -- if not by the treatment you receive, by the derogatory skype messages you can see from the corner of your eye. If you dare submit an expense report, expect to get berated for an hour by a 200k a year executive about a $5 receipt that didn't scan properly. You'll put your head down and try to endure it. But occasionally, you dare to remind yourself that this isn't some Skull and Bones firm where you might expect some degree of old fashioned classism. This is Wayfair, and this is supposed to be LAST place where this happens. Let's talk pay. Don't be fooled. They barely pay market wages. You can't assume you'll ever see a dime of the stock options they purport during negotiations. There's no guarantee they'll give you your performance bonus, and your stock options take years to vest. They know you'll be long gone before then, or the company will implode, so don't think of that as money in the bank. Your base salary is all you should expect to see. Revenue is growing strong, but the company has not shown an ability to turn a profit. The stock price fluctuates violently. What's especially concerning is that the problem of profitability seems to be getting worse, not better. The market is skeptical that the business model works. Wayfair provides customer service for home goods. A high percentage of orders has an issue that requires follow up (more cost.) Realistically, how many sofas will a customer buy over a lifetime? How long will it take to recoup the losses from all the orders we comp for minor reasons, such as 'the cardboard box was dirty' or 'it smells funny'? Yet the company has been hiring like CRAZY, which is only going to lead to more fixed costs. Overall, it feels more like you're working on a team project at college than for a real company. Plenty of intelligent people work here, but very few can appreciate the difference between academic theories and real world practicality. The generation that was never allowed to fail has landed its first job, and it's here. Insecurity runs rampant. So much is done simply for the sake of proving it can be done. Wayfair would spend $100 million designing its own spreadsheet software, and when complete they'd use it to add two cells together. Is this the kind of environment in which you'd like to work?

So after being let go several months ago. I felt it was time to write jail sentence at wayfair. Funny thing all of a sudden tons of positive reviews after all negative, So this explains why all of a sudden in the last 4 months there is a rise in reviews. So, If you’re a college student get ready because wayfair is coming to your campus to recruit you, why? because you have an ivy league degree, you need the money so they will low ball you, Just to get you in the door. Tell you about the free wall of snacks on every floor and the beer on tap, the game room and pod outings. Like most companies they will inflate their egos to get you in the door. Then you will be given a cool project to work on but very little direction or documentation and expect you to get it done better. If you ask your manager for training or documentation, they will yes you to death but never follow through. I was promised from my first week I would have training in software that pertained to my job on the 1st month, the 4th month, the 6th month. Then on the 8th month I was told its not coming and to get over it by my manager. But wait don’t I need the tools necessary to perform my job? Of course you do, but they will not give it to you. If you ask a mid-level (4) manager or director for thoughts they see it as an attempt to steal their jobs, and then they find ways to make you look bad, like you’re not knowing your job or make up a lie to say you didn’t complete a task. Some employees actually act and verbally show themselves as they run the show and don’t care how they speak to you or what they say. I had this happen to me in a warehouse in front of a senior director but that director didn’t care when I said to him” what’s the deal with her attitude and condescending remarks”. He laughed it off and said “oh well”. The level 3 managers are pretentious engineers, they all have rude behavior and are out for themselves by throwing you under a bus, these managers favoritism is rampant, if you kiss their butts, and be a yes man and bend over backwards for them and rat on other people you will make it at wayfair. They hire young inexperienced kids, yes kids, not seasoned highly experienced adults, who have been in the industry for years, that’s because they couldn’t afford to pay them. It is by far the most judgmental place, it’s about playing favorites and playing the games. Everything changes constantly from pushing out system production updates every 4-6 hours during live work time, and then to have the live production updates fail, and then everything shuts down including the warehouse ops. I was placed on a PIP that I wasn’t performing as expected and was told I had to turn myself around and present a plan to fix it. If I was never trained on process and procedures, and never received the training I was promised during my interviews by level 3,4 and 5 mangers, how can I improve myself or the ways to fix it if I don’t know what it first entailed. During my weekly pip meetings, I was never told if I am on track or doing what I need to do or is how am I presenting it correct? All I was told, is there is a new sheriff in town and my manager wasn’t going to be the one let go. My manager was offsite and had favorites in his office location and I had a few words with some of those others staff members who were rude and belligerent to me, and then lied to my manger I was the problem. I then submitted the issues to the so called anonymous board that reviews problems for their departments, and when they read my issues in our monthly meeting live not knowing who presented it they had no idea it was happening? Really? That means you have no idea what is going on overall in your department as a level 6 senior director/vp level. Nothing was done about it, there was only a quick comment live that “oh wow, we didn’t know this, we will get it resolved”. I still talk to people who work there and it’s still happening.. so as some of the posts mentioned.. If you want to be kicked around, talked down too, disrespected and thrown under a bus, this is the place for you. At least I heard one of the level 5 went back to Portland so that’s a good thing, he was useless anyway. If you get on someone’s bad side by voicing your opinions watch your back, that person and their clan are coming to get you out. Ok so now the person who monitors peoples comments will post up “First, I wanted to thank you for providing feedback. Second, I am very sorry to hear that your experience was far from ideal” ready….set…go…