College+ for kids who pine for Middle School
Pros
Free beer every two months. Free high-sodium snacks and sludge-grade insta-coffee. Super cool people with which to commiserate. If you can maintain the Candide-level naiveté that I had when I got the job, who knows, sky's the limit, I guess.
Cons
I was punished or reprimanded at least every other month for really minor things. For example, I once added humorous product features to kitsch art. Management did not find this funny. Another time I was punished was for speaking directly to the department head. I once asked a CO what he thought about net neutrality and he scowled, reciting an ambiguous line about liking free markets. Twice I applied for jobs in departments more amenable to my experience and was told that not only would I not get the job, but I should stop applying altogether since they would never consider me. (I got a job in the field after I left Wayfair) Twice I was told I would not receive a raise or promotion because of what I posted to the company non-work forum. One of those posts was a Zoidberg meme. Management routinely punished my immediate superiors for my behavior, to the point where my team leader actually said to me "just stop talking." I once got a form rejection to a job that went to someone with zero experience. That's not an exaggeration, when she told me she got the job she said "I don't know why you didn't even get an interview, I've literally never done anything like this." Also losing out on this job was a friend of mine who was even more qualified than I. The girl who got the job was fired three months later for incompetence. Wayfair salaries start at 32k. Your first raise will bump you up to 35k. Their bonus system is 0-10% of your salary, but if you made the mistake of going temp-to-perm they will prorate your bonus based on when you went full time. They will find excuses to do this to a lot of your money. Meanwhile, if you follow the W stock on google/finance, you will see the CO's selling stock on the reg to the tune of your potential lifetime earnings. Do not work for this company unless you need to pay off some people you don't want to owe money to. And even then, only if they'll give you a rather lengthy payment plan.
