Wayfair reviews

Absolutely no work-life balance, and the company prides itself on it. Tries to be the Amazon of terrible employers. Extreme amount of pressure to get more done faster. You're given lots of conflicting direction (don't take excessive risks, but get this done yesterday). I would get reprimanded for not finishing projects fast enough that were dead for months before I brought them back to life. Very cut-throat office politics. I was hired with the understanding that it was okay that I was still working on my undergrad. I eventually decided to give that up given the amount of work I had, and confirmed with my direct manager that that wasn't a problem, who in turn confirmed with HR. I was let go a month later for bringing down a service that had two other outages that month, all because I was doing some unrelated work on it at the time of the outage. A manager in my hierarchy that gave me a fistbump every single morning ended up throwing me under the bus at the direction of his own manager, who was hired a month beforehand and wanted to set an example. This was a few days after I spent part of my New Years holiday supporting a Severity 1 event. Compensation was not market competitive. Open environment taken to the extreme. Extremely noisy with regular nerf battles that are listed as one of the perks of employment. It's impossible to get any work done without some noise cancelling headphones and blinders. Consistently given flack for spending some time working in unused conference rooms so I could get work of any value done. Never given an honest report from the Executive team about company performance. Any bad prognosis in the news was derided as BS coming from stock shorters. Most of those predictions ended up being true.