How good (or bad?) is Wayfair?
Offered TC (Berlin): €110k YoE: 6 Got what looks like decent money for Berlin office in the SRE team (I'm not in USA, so this is not a step down in terms of money). I've read a lot of negative reviews here and on Glassdoor, and most of it seems to be about legacy tech (which they said they're modernizing already) and questionable decisions (which every company has, honestly). But I'm guessing they're all for product dev teams, so I'm posting here for a better idea of their work and culture. How is the SRE team? Is any SRE team in particular doing good work? Is their work good, how are the managers and teams? Does being in Berlin slow down promotion velocity a lot, or exclude you from major decisions?
SREs seem to be overworked, in general, but being in Berlin, you should be insulated from the always on call culture. I think there's a lot of opportunity right now at Wayfair especially with our positive momentum in moving to the cloud. Traditionally, there's been good career growth via merit but we've made a very hard push for engineering leadership diversity based on gender.
Always on call? I was told there's some SOC team that does first level of on call, I assumed that'd insulate SREs from on call related burnout. Not true?
I'm not at leadership level right now, so the diversity push doesn't bother me. And honestly, every company has the same problem, it's not like Wayfair is alone in this 😐
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The folks in Berlin are definitely better than the teams in the USA from what I’ve seen. I also know no one in the USA seems to give a shit about them either.
Don't give a shit meaning? Not being appreciated or being straight up excluded from promotions and major decisions etc? I work outside USA now so I know that everyone faces this problem of being less appreciated,
It'd be nice to say that the Boston and Berlin teams collaborate but the leadership seems to want us to silo so we can figure out who can deliver results faster. Unfortunately, most business functions are in Boston with the engineering maturity as well so you'll be in the outside looking in (major decisions, promotions, etc.)