Make sure you have strong personal values or you won’t survive
Pros
This company is a fountain of creative, interesting and hard working candidates. You will make life long friends and have lots to empathize with each other about as you’ll likely need to vent about your day to day. Often
Cons
- there is a heavy emphasis on tech and automation which is great from a business perspective. But your human employees are the ones feeding the systems the information and the ideas that will then take their jobs. Just compensate them for that fairly. That does not happen at Wayfair if you’ve started your career here. If you’re looking to come into Wayfair later on in your career you are valuable to them. But not fresh minds and fresh ideas. That’s sad to me - management creates an environment of competition often without realizing it. This means that so much energy is put into work that often only benefits an individual and not actually what’s best for business goals. If less pressure was out on employees to compete for promotions and be compensated fairly you would find your employees working as a team towards a common goal. This would get you far more gains overall. Invest your money in the smart people you hire and trust they will get you there rather than making them play gladiator for your entertainment - people are promoted based off of working hard long hours.... not working smart - most roles are severely undervalued in salary and management likes to rationalize this with all the “perks” - open office environment creates a terrible lack of care for personal mental health and even physical health - any efforts put towards growth in equality and diversity are only for Positive PR presence. These efforts are not for the good of the world or the employees. - HR is a powerful and terrifying machine at Wayfair. They are built big and strong to defend the upper management and company name. Not to protect to health and wellness of the employees. Bringing your issues to HR does not mean you will receive support. It means you have flagged yourself as a potential “difficult person” and you will either be asked to be less dramatic or the tables will be turned and any mistakes you personally have made will be pulled up to diminish any sense of credibility you may have