Talent at Wayfair is a very toxic environment. They have created a place they seems like agency recruiting without the commission: highly competitive, individually oriented, destructive, long hours, and a difficult grind. They sell the exact opposite to everyone coming in. They talk about their "high bar" yet continue to promote incompetent managers who are better at playing politics than managing people. Their promotional track is inconsistent and goes against the "data driven" environment they constantly talk about. Employees not only lack insight into the review and promotion cycle, it is overly confusing and complicated. They measure you on how you are calibrated against the performance of your level and promotions are based on how you perform against the next level (and if you are ALREADY doing that work). Except you have no insight into the performance of anyone at your level or the level above you.
Talent is hemorrhaging employees and leadership doesn't seem to care. At least not enough to want to make major changes. Wayfair doesn't do change well. They talk a big game about being an environment that "changes fast" but when it comes down to it, change happens slow and incrementally.
Also: for a tech company, they are TERRIBLE at technology. They have somewhat started to learn they shouldn't build it themselves. It took them a while. Yet even when they know something is coming and have the time to roll it out, they still mess it up. They rolled out their Gmail migration and all the conference rooms were down for 3 days for booking. They continue to have difficulty booking rooms and things are often double booked. You think a company that has recruiters preach to people that they are an "$8 billion company" would be able to figure something like that out.
I could go on. But mostly it's: poor management, high turnover, a terrible promotion system, and unrealistic expectations.
