Wayfair reviews

3.1

39% would recommend to a friend

(6,871 total reviews)
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Niraj Shah

28% approve of CEO

27% positive business outlook

Wayfair has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 6,871 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Wayfair employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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7K reviews
1.0
Aug 21, 2020

Cmt

Recommend
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Pros

You can say you’re employed

Cons

This company is pure garbage. They don’t care about employees at all. The continually lie about changes within the company. They’re so bad at being transparent they had to remove transparency as a core value. They don’t care about the mental health of their employees one bit as much as they like to pretend they do. You can’t get a promotion unless you sleep around with upper management. You can be over 100% to goal on your metrics and still be marked as unsatisfactory metrics, disqualifying you from a raise or to move positions in the company. If you’re part of a pilot program they tell you it won’t impact your metrics even though it will destroy your metrics. Management will then say they’re sure the company will do the right thing while still screwing you for doing your job. They tell you average handle time will never be a metric before implementing average handle time. They tell you to take care of the customer first and worry about metrics later while removing all of your tools to help the customer and giving people write ups and firing them for not meeting customer satisfaction metrics. They tell you they take your feedback seriously while ignoring all feedback. They have the audacity to give corporate employees “refresh” days to take extra time off during this trying time while removing approved holidays off for 90% of the department. And that is not an exaggeration. A maximum of 10% of employees can now get the holiday approved off instead of the 100% it used to be. This is also based on your metrics which people are blatantly manipulating at the direction of their direct supervisor. This is also what raises are based on. My department is also now overflow for every department below us and the department above us with no extra compensation. If you value you life, if you value your sanity, if you value common decency, apply elsewhere.

2.0
Aug 18, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Pretty much very good opportunity for personal career growth - you will learn a lot & expect to deliver a lot & take a lot of responsibilities (due to how bad management is basically) Also your co-workers are amazing & you will make a lot of friends here

Cons

Oh jeeze where should i begin. A few things I've found consistently across several functional areas within my org: 1. management is very bad - in comparison to previous companies I've stayed at this is literally the worst management team I've ever witnessed. Most L4 + (sr manager & above) that I've met are bad in terms of managing people & taking responsibilities. They all made ownership a big deal for L1/L2s and basically throw you under bus if anything goes wrong; if things go well, they will take credit for your work. Also I've witnessed several L4/5s utilizing their unlimited PTOs extensively (basically out every Mon or Fri or taking vacations from week to week) while L1/2s are given literally no time to rest. Don't get me wrong, there are some good managers out there but the bad ones far outweighs the effort of the good ones. 2. Compensation - literally you are paid significantly under market price and I don't see a solid path for promotion; especially for L1/2s - you won't have time to take PTOs and they would require approval from your managers. 3. politics - for a company at this size we have way too many people trying to solve the same problem; then there are fights constantly going on to decide who to do what, aside from bad management trying to constantly throw you under bus, you have people fighting you across the org. Huge soli-ed environment and cross-department effort can be very hostile

4.0
Aug 6, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

• A lot of freedom - if you make your case, you can do whatever you want. • Many departments value WLB and avoiding crunch on the creative/product side. • Rub shoulders with some of the most intelligent individual contributors you'll find in tech. • Historically bad with transparency company-wide, but has since pivoted to improve in this area significantly in regards to compensation and reviews. • Work on interesting projects/become a trailblazer for e-commerce. • Decent culture with mostly-jovial people. • Good yearly bonus + okay benefits.

Cons

• Too many inexperienced middle-managers - causes severe communication issues for certain departments. • Bias/favoritism for certain departments, making promotions few and far between for certain personality types. • Expected to work outside of your assigned duties to prove you deserve a promotion. This sometimes results in burnout and unrealistic expectations. • Changing departments/roles is almost like starting from scratch. you have to rebuild any rapport you had, making previous reviews irrelevant. • Pay is overall low for certain roles - way under market average for L1-L2. • Health insurance options are limited/lackluster. • Not a clear avenue for compensation negotiations during review cycles. • Relies on grading on a curve/corporate calibrations during review cycles - a "necessary" evil to keep overspending for promotions in check and keep managers honest when it comes to removing subjectivity from reviews.

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