Wayfair Software Developer reviews

3.5

80% would recommend to a friend

(295 total reviews)
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Niraj Shah

48% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Wayfair with 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 295 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Wayfair is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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295 reviews
2.0
Jul 27, 2014

Awful Experience

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Pros

They try hard to have a good work culture with snacks, monthly team outings, tickets to sporting events, etc. The company is doing well and will probably

Cons

The codebase is awful. There's 10-year-old ASP code, but the founders and senior employees don't seem to understand standard software development methods, and so no one can take the time to do it properly. Anyone but senior engineers are basically code monkeys that spend 80% of their time dealing with existing code. The excuse is that they do things quickly "like a startup", except there's way too much traffic and complexity to the code to do things "like a startup". Also, no one seems to know the requirements, so you can't change any existing code for fear that you'll break something. The perks are good in theory, but snacks and one free drink a month isn't enough to make up for the unfulfilling work. Free event tickets are based on tenure with the company, so you have no hope of getting anything good until you've been there a few years. There is high turnover, with a lot of new engineers leaving within 6 months.

2.0
Oct 17, 2013

experience

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Pros

good to go. Can learn good work.

Cons

high volume of work. Managment is quite complex.

2.0
Oct 14, 2013

Not the place to be

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Pros

The work you get at Wayfair is pretty simple. Its was a good entry level job after I graduated from a local college. There are some nice people in the engineering department and free snacks is a nice perk.

Cons

The work is very boring. The pay is not good. Senior management doesn't really care about people under them and it's very hard to even talk to them. The turnover rate is exceptionally high and you see people leaving all the time, but management doesn't really care and sees us as disposable. I don't see myself working here any longer, despite only being at Wayfair for a few months.

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