Hey WayFair what's your plan?
At WF given that WLB is notorious but what's your plan for survival against market leaders? I don't want my resume to read "Famous Online Marketplace - Wayfair.com" in ten years. Could some insiders please enlighten me?
If you’re considering joining Wayfair, don’t. You’ll regret it the good ones are trying to get out. It’s not a tech company. It’s a logistics and marketing company.
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Wayfair’s WLB is notoriously good or bad? Genuine question
For me it's amazing. But I'm not on the tech side, and based on what I read here the engineering stuff stinks
I’m in engineering as a department but not an engineer. My WLB is fantastic and I know a lot of my engineers don’t do shit, but they’re also always on call essentially. It really varies by team but I wonder how people actually do feel about the WLB here
I do probably 30-35 hours a week. Since leadership can’t align on a strategy and they keep hiring people to the point where we have nearly a 1:1 ratio between pm/eng, I’ve been working on very simple short term projects that take up a fraction of my day. I could work 20 hours a week and get all my stuff done.
There's always a bigger sucker out there. We all have different circumstances. And to some people, proper work-life "balance" means ≈80 hours per week enjoying work, and the other 80 hours enjoying life.
What planet is that?
I think they're from Earth, but am not sure.