Wayfair Sr. Engineer total comp ?
Recruiter asked me total comp expectation but I postponed that discussion until on-site But now have on-site and would like to know what can I expect for Sr. Engineer with 7yrs exp. This position is based at Boston Also curious abt on-site interview process if anyone has given on-site recently TC: 100k in a small Midwest city
They offered me 150k base + 900 RSU ( 900 stock units, not 900k$). RSU Vesting every quarter over 4 yrs. 25 k joining bonus that included relocation assistance. I rejected the offer as I cracked Google one week after interviewing with then. At time of offer, their stock was at 135$ per share.
Thanks for the info! So their TC came to around 180k ? Higher in the first yr due to sign on. Think it’s pretty good for Boston!
Decent for Boston. I know PTC in their new Boston office is offering similar comp.
Interview difficulty was moderate. Leetcode easy to medium. Mostly easy. Design round was good, they asked to design tinyurl website. Dug deep on server side choices. Db , sharding, federation, scalability etc.
What level and was it 900 Rsu/ year?
No level. They said they are flat and don't believe in designations. Just engineering position in xyz team. 900 rsu over 4 yrs Vesting at 6.25% every quarter.
Lol oh so this is the lie they're telling now. Previously they told people that levels and titles don't mean much and PMs are PMs, Engineers are Engineers. This is not true at all. Everyone refers to themselves as a level (eg "L3 engineer") and responsibilities and comp are strictly tied to these level bands. We are NOT a "flat" company. Not one bit.
I'm pretty sure offer was for L3, based on RSU grant.
They had one round of coding, and 3 design rounds. 1. Asked to design fruit vendor website, and then kept adding requirements similar to stuff you see on Wayfair website.. basically trying to figure how much you know about server side scalability , db design , functional programming, actor systems, and general SOA and cloud native apps. 2. Design a DVD / movie sharing website. Again.. dug deep on DB design choices. Good interview, whatever decision i made.. they would add a new requirement that would not work very well with that design choice. Seemed like they wanted to see how you would adapt to such situations with changing reqs.
But we don't have any cloud-native apps. Curious why they'd test you on that specifically - almost everything at Wayfair is on prem, and the things that are on cloud services are just using those services to extend the on-prem monolith.
There is nothing in my inbox about a cloud-native app. GCP is being used to burst traffic from BO1, but that's basically no different than just building more racks in BO1 (except that it's a variable cost instead of a sunk cost). We're nowhere near cloud-native on anything that we're doing.
Brush up on HTTP protocol basics. During last round 1X1 with their director, the dude asked a bunch of questions to "explain as much as you know .. about how http redirect works. From browser to server to what goes on the wire etc.. Also.. explain as much in detail as possible about how browser renders the server response for a HTML page. How is js executed etc. I told him explicitly that I am a server side guy, and don't have much experience with client side or UI.. he said my team already tested you for what you know.. I want to test what you don't know.
What’s the point in testing for something you don’t know? As if the interviewer knows everything lol. They should instead be evaluating whether what you know is good enough for you to do the job.
He didn't ask anything out of the ordinary.. at Sr engineer level.. there's no good reason not to know anything at all about what he asked
At least 140-180k, depending on what tier 'Sr. Engineer' you fall into at Wayfair