Wayfair reviews

This is the most toxic company culture that I have ever seen. The company has no infrastructure to ensure universal cohesion nor expectations of any given role. Company culture openly pits employee against employee in their "review calibrations" and looks for reasons to foster a culture of fear and destabilization. Employees are not empowered or supported to grow in this company. Status quo is celebrated, politics and shady relationships win, and genuinely invested talent that are willing to stick there neck out are immediately squashed by associate directors that know less and afraid to be seen for their incompetence. Working is this company is like working in a frat house on life support and they withhold a great deal of earned pay as future stock earnings, forcing employees into "golden handcuffs" to stay put in such a terrible company and then find any way to take it away. Employees are greatly overworked, underpaid, receive no clarity on objectives, terrified to work, terrified to take time off. Whatever you do, do not support a company like this. Only do business with companies that genuinely support internal stakeholders, as much as they value their customers.

My time at Wayfair has been just short of miserable. I’ve worked at Wayfair for a little over a year. Let me walk you through my experience: 1. I accepted a job offer that outlined job responsibilities that were nowhere near close to what my actual day to day included. The recruiting team and the manager that interviewed me told me what I wanted to hear. 2. Working in the Talent org, I have insight into compensation bands - especially how they relate to other offers in Boston. After seeing these numbers, I truly understand how “ripped off” I’ve been. Wayfair leadership constantly tells its employees that is has a holistic view of compensation because of equity and benefits. I’m sorry but a “cool” office, free snacks, and lavish quarterly parties do not make up for a barely livable wage. 3. Wayfair has an insane turnover rate, with most people putting in a year of service before leaving the company with a small share of equity. There are double the amount of men who have been at the company for 3 years than there are women, despite the fact that it’s 50/50 at entry levels. 4. I’ve seen first hand how leadership plays favorites, makes exceptions, and brushes things under the rug. Leadership needs to understand that employees are extremely observant. 5. Review cycles are a complete joke here. If it’s not your turn to get promoted, you’ll get screwed over based on “calibrations” and a bell curve that pits employees against one another and guarantees that some will fail. Instead of having a review process that puts employees on the defensive, leadership should be focusing on rewarding hard-working employees and not just its favorites. If you are looking to work here, consider this fair warning that you’ll be stuck in an entry level role for 2-3 years, be looked down upon if you don’t work long hours, and be living paycheck to paycheck. If you’re living on someone else’s dime, then this is a great place to bide your time until something better comes up.