Relaxed Environment, but hardworking
Pros
- Company does a really good job of getting entry level employees (like me) invested in the business' health and profitability. Data about daily/hourly/etc revenue is available to nearly everyone so you can see how the business is doing on a day-to-day basis. This helps put more meaning into your work and feel more invested in it - Office is great (good location near lots of food, snack walls everywhere around the office) - It has a good tech company culture. A little bit of the east coast vibe is built into it though. The dress code is relaxed, but they do expressly forbid things like basketball shorts, so not quite like working at a silicon valley tech company - Lots of cross team communication. My team gets fairly regular presentations from other teams around the business (from pricing to marketing to supply chain to finance) about what they're working on and how they approach problems they have. These are really cool because you get to learn about and get exposure to areas of the business you otherwise wouldn't know anything about. It also helps keep you in tune with how the business is doing as a whole and what areas they're trying to grow - It's fairly easy to move around from team to team in the company so you don't get bored working on the same thing for years at a time. If you like what you're doing they don't force you to move, but they also have a philosophy of 'people get bored working on things for too long, so we'd rather move them around within Wayfair than have them leave'. Does a really good job of keeping things fresh and exciting - Monthly and quarterly team meetings with various levels of senior management provide really good opportunities to ask frank and tough questions (anonymously if you'd like) to senior management
Cons
- The onboarding process for people in BI can take a long time and be a bit unstructured. They make you take 6 weeks worth of "courses", a handful of which are incredibly helpful, but the majority of which are either a waste of time (going over very basic SQL when I'm almost sure everyone who gets hired into BI must know at least some SQL already) or poorly done. These also get spaced out over 6 weeks so you have to be really proactive in finding things to keep yourself busy in that time period even though they haven't taught you things you really need to know in order to do your job yet (like their internal data visualization tool which people use frequently but doesn't get taught to you until your 6th week) - Hours are a bit longer than 40/wk. I think this varies by team a lot, but everybody on my team is working closer to 45-50 hrs/wk. - They're hiring at such a crazy pace that I wonder how they could possibly navigate a macroeconomic downturn like a recession without having to lay off hundreds of people. The CEO is on the Boston Federal Reserve Board so he is obviously in tune with macroeconomic trends to some extent, but at the end of the day the company isn't profitable yet and if a recession comes the furniture business is going to be one of the first and hardest hit
