Good Place for a Job, Bad Place for a Job You'll Like
Pros
- Great place to start your career, most of the corporate employees are in their 20's - Entire company is focused on using data to make any and all decisions - Very transparent with high-level decisions and communication from the co-founders - Big emphasis on culture and fun, free beer/cider in the kitchens, lots of snacks, game rooms. - Employees can publicly recognize each other for good work, and most can even gift each other credit for Wayfair purchases - Aggressive recruiting and constantly hiring, although they are slowing down for non-engineering roles
Cons
- Low pay across the board, especially for entry-level; most of my colleagues had second jobs. VPs and Directors routinely dodged the overwhelming negative feedback about compensation - Aggressive recruiting takes up most of management's time and every conference room in the building. - Very stratified company, every position is Leveled (0-9) and people use it to judge you constantly. - Two annual performance reviews is a huge time suck for the entire company, involving months of calibration meetings to decide where to place employees on a bell curve of compensation. So your review is partially a reflection of your work, but mostly a reflection of your peers. - Incompetent middle-managers with poor communication habits. Senior managers and directors may never interact with their "L1's" but that doesn't stop them from adjusting their performance reviews. - The Copley Place office is surprisingly subpar. Every morning from 8:30-9:30 there's a long line to get up the single-file escalator, past a security desk, then another line to get into the elevators. Same line situation if you're trying to leave between 4:45-5:15. Also the entire place is infested with mice, and when you put a ticket in with facilities, all they'll do is put a snap-trap near your desk. Beware dead or dying mice at your feet. - They're moving some teams into a new building on Boylston street, so the distance between the two is probably a 12-minute walk. I can't imagine how much this will deteriorate their (already poor) internal communication habits.
