Wayfair Data Engineer II reviews

3.4

36% would recommend to a friend

(95 total reviews)
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Niraj Shah

15% approve of CEO

22% positive business outlook

Data Engineer II employees have rated Wayfair with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 95 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Data Engineer II professionals have a good working experience there. Wayfair is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Data Engineer II professionals compared to other employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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95 reviews
5.0
Aug 3, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- Competitive pay - Lots of young people (can be pro or con...) - Work with very smart and great people - Since the company is growing rapidly, there are plenty of opportunities to get promoted. They do not follow a standard two year promotion cycle for new graduates- you can get promoted within a year if you prove yourself - Opportunities to move jobs within the company - In my department, I feel like upper management really cares about their employees. Upward feedback is encouraged and listened to. I have heard this varies a lot by department though - Great work/life balance with flexible WFH and hours (dependent on department) - I have been able to work on high-visibility projects and have gained useful experience that makes me more marketable - Discounted BSC and Equinox gym membership, snacks, discount on items from the website, monthly team outings, quarterly company parties - Great office location with plenty of lunch options nearby

Cons

- Hiring very quickly- hard to maintain the close-knit culture - Becoming increasingly more bureaucratic - Harder to make an impact - Only 6 official holidays - Review process takes a total of three months- from the start of writing reviews to getting a compensation and/or promotion change

3.0
Jul 12, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Wayfair is a great place to work as a junior hire. You learn a ton about data science (DS) very quickly, and you meet a bunch of amazingly talented colleagues who you’ll be friends with throughout your career. On top of this, I think Wayfair has a good culture that historically promoted effective collaboration across DS teams, which is novel for such a large DS organization.

Cons

I’d say the cracks begin to show 2 years in. - Management is much more focused on pushing out products than investing in the growth of their reports. Because of this, there is a clear change in tone in performance reviews about 2 years in. Management starts to lack interest in seeing you grow and gets more interested in seeing you turn out models more quickly. This made it feel like the organization lacked opportunities for maturing employees. - There is nontrivial technical debt enabled by management. Since management is more focused on getting the “next big thing” out the door rather than maintaining and upgrading current systems, the team ends up with software that doesn’t scale properly or analyses that aren’t reproducible. - The collaborative culture started to get more hostile. Management started to emphasize “protecting your time” when helping other data scientists and team meetings became more shouting matches. The hostility to me was mostly caused by several new hires who had difficulty interpreting and internalizing feedback on their projects.

4.0
Jun 8, 2019

Best job for starters

Recommend
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Pros

excellent work environment with access to beer everyday

Cons

lack of communication between teams

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