Wayfair reviews

The culture revolves around impressing and convincing other people into thinking you're providing value. Many roles provide limited value. If you don't want to play pretend and write enormous documents citing 20 different statistics (maybe 2-3 of which that are actually relevant,) you will not fit in. What do you get when you mix incredibly intelligent people who want to justify their roles and responsibilities to minimize their chances of being laid off? A culture where everyone is desperate to prove their worth (even if their role has minimal) through as much theatrics and mass-cc'ing that they can manage. The culture revolves around sending out dissertation-like emails that nobody reads but everyone pretends to. Executive leadership is as shifty as you'd expect. At town halls, they refuse to give straight answers. The CFO actually tries to hold Niraj accountable in these meetings, but boy is that uncomfortable to watch. What do you get when you cross a narcissist's delusions of grandeur with the cold hard reality of failing financials? A Wayfair townhall. If you forgot to grab a snack before it started, feel free to take a slice of the thick tense atmosphere. At Wayfair, there is incredible kool-aid surrounding former consultants - in that they supposedly provide tremendous value and invaluable strategic thinking. When you build a workforce out of majority ex-consultants, all that ends up happening is you have former consultants constantly creating sparkly docs and business plans (pretending to add value) without actually doing any work. You cannot staff an entire workforce around people whose primary skillset revolves around making management suggestions, dumping actual work on others, and leaving before anything actually gets implemented. Who is left to do the actual work? On a separate but related note, I'll leave you to speculate as to what the majority-consultant culture does to diversity of thought. There isn't any. But there is the "Wayfair standard" and the Wayfair way. Map the stock price for the last two years to tell you what that monolithic way-of-thinking is worth.