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
2.0
Sep 1, 2017
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Pros

Free snacks Learn from mistakes of others Lots of solving problems that shouldn't exist

Cons

NO work/life balance EXTREMELY LIMITED room for growth Cliques everywhere No collaboration No job security

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Wayfair Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback and I’m sorry that you had a poor experience at Wayfair. Our Engineering team has grown tenfold over the last five years, and we are still growing very quickly! As we scale, there have been hurdles along the way, but we always try to keep our employees engaged, challenged and aware of all the open roles and opportunities on the team. We want our engineers to feel comfortable raising their hands and taking on new things, and I hope we continue to push this point. A couple of the other topics you mention are ones the Engineering department has worked steadily to improve over the past couple of years. Work/life balance is something we encourage, with flexibility in working hours and competitive time off. While I’m encouraged by the progress we’ve made, I’m sorry we weren’t able to address them for you. Collaboration is also very important to us – many of our software teams work in cross-functional groups and are encouraged to speak up with questions or concerns – and while it’s tough to get that exactly right at a large organization, we encourage our employees to speak up when we’re not doing it as best as we could so we can continuously improve.
1.0
Aug 6, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Stock Options - Office In Copley square

Cons

Engineers get abused heavily. (Expectations are very high & rewards are almost none) Lack of testing during deploys make the deploy a very dangerous task. Work from home is considered as evil. (You need more to trust more with your employees). No emphasis on trainings or conferences. There is NO TEAM work. Firings are common.

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