Pros
Fun pod-outings (team outings), great quarterly and holiday parties, standing desks, AWESOME game room, AMAZING beer selection and kegs on two floors. decent vacation package, bananas on Thursdays, apples and string cheese on Tuesdays, great location in downtown Boston.
Cons
I started at Wayfair in 2013, back when we were at the Huntington office. It used to be a warm, friendly, and fun place. Culture was important and the overall health and happiness of the company was evident. When we went public it started to change and in my opinion the culture went downhill overnight. Managers started to micromanage to the EXTREME! Autonomy went out the window, your creative input and ideas that once were valued so highly and actually put into play were ignored. Wayfair's core value WAS transparency, its even on the walls of meeting rooms. Last year they fired 45 people in one conference room. HR brought in 45 boxes of kleenexes! Walking into the room the room the employees looked like deer in front of headlights. The other half of the department was brought into a room and given pizzas and spoke about the future of the department. One person spoke up and asked if employees could expect future layoffs. Upper management struggled to answer the question. Upper replacement managers were brought in after this and decided people could no longer use their phones at theirs desks, weren't allowed to go on Facebook, or any other social media sites. We were given new quotas, but weren't allowed to see the value of our accounts and how management decided upon these figures.
