Wayfair Software Developer reviews

3.5

79% would recommend to a friend

(295 total reviews)
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Niraj Shah

48% approve of CEO

52% 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
3.0
Dec 8, 2017
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Pros

Friendly atmosphere, great people, good benefits

Cons

Poor management, poor onboarding process

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Wayfair Response
8y
Thank you for providing your feedback. As the company grows, we’re constantly working to improve our on-boarding process and make it even more rewarding for new hires. We will take your feedback into consideration.
5.0
Oct 25, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

fantastic onboarding process they take time to make sure you're comfortable no shortage of capital to make quick changes and provide everyone with the best tech smart people awesome community and office managers very cool, always encourage good work-life balance

Cons

labs on-boarding can be a bit anxiety-provoking for a while

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Wayfair Response
8y
Thank you so much for writing your review! I’m so glad you’re enjoying working with our team and the culture we’ve built here – moving fast, bringing super sharp folks onto the team, and encouraging community/balance are all things our Engineering leaders feel strongly about. I’m sorry to hear that our labs program was a bit stressful for you – we’re constantly working to improve it and make the process even more rewarding for new hires. In the years since we started this program, we’ve seen a bunch of progress on this front, but we’re always looking to make improvements. I hope you and our other labs grads will continue to give us candid feedback, because as you know we like to say, “we’re never done!” Thanks for being a part of the team and a part of all the fun, new and challenging things we get to work on and build.
5.0
Oct 5, 2017

Great work-life balance

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Pros

Personally, I set work-life balance boundaries early on (literally 7 hour work days), made competent software engineering decisions and stayed engaged while in the office, and learned from those around me, and it pays off. I've received on average 9% annual raise. I am not advancing as quickly as some around me. There is still growth and need for people to step up and individual contributors can be greatly rewarded for growing and contributing. There is so much room for improvement and ideas too. Also moms and dads both great fully paid maternity paternity leave! I like the PTO system which includes unlimited unpaid time off if you accidentally go over. That is, if you feel like you don't have enough time off or holidays and book a little too much time off, you won't get fired for not coming to work, you just won't get paid for a couple days. That is fair to those who work more.

Cons

You have to be receptive to change and adaptation as teams split, grow, move desks, tools change, we adopt better frameworks and libraries and coding practices. It depends on what software team you are working on as to what the specific culture, work, tech stack is like. But I see that all teams are heading in the right direction, some more slowly than others.

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