B2B or B2C sales engineering team. Anyone who could give insight about which team to join? Any help is highly appreciated.
The one selling beds to the people running the concentration camps on the southern border?
That’s B2B
I’d always prefer B2C
Run far away, 25% YOY turnover and shady execs
I know someone on B2C sales engineering. Says the team is lacking direction (which is common at Wayfair in general) but otherwise they seem to have no major complaints? They haven’t been here long enough to experience the entirety of that “technical incompetence” thread - a lot of points there are very true
I’m on the B2C sales engineering team, it’s certainly early (joined in the last 6 weeks) but I’m liking what I’m seeing. I like the transparency and inclusion, we just went from 1 pod to 3 pods in 3 months, I wish we had more tech leads and expected more from the old team, it seems like some of then are just complaining a lot. Excited for the data science platform team work that’s getting started soon!
I like the leader's credentials, having returned from a previous tenure at Wayfair before, and understands how to scale teams from working at startups.
I know folks too. New leadership just came in. I believe both teams are largely shielded from the monorepo nonsense. I'd just be careful on who is my direct supervisor. What level are you coming in at?
What’s your take on the leaders for both groups? And why isn’t it just one large group? I get the specialization but seems like a missed opportunity
It's part of the STO initiative where business leaders want clear distinction between what's mine and what's yours. Agree completely that engineering should be one large group but at some point, teams that are super large don't scale and it's hard to manage too. Might as well plan for the growth and split the team accordingly.
B2C has a more interesting path forward but they’re generally on the same tech stack. Looks like a lot of growth ahead for them
That’s what I’ve learned about as well, B2B is very rigid, older and slower. More revenue for sure which is better for all Wayfair, but that also means that business folks are calling all the shots. In B2C there seems to be more engineering ownership and control, with a nicer vision for how we’re going to make everything machine learning driven. The new platform team (Salesforce) approach across groups is good too but too early to see if we can execute the right way. But not sure if the difference from having an L5 eng leader for B2B which is larger business vs L6 eng leader for B2C, leading me to believe that there is more potential ahead for B2C and joint efforts. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying one of them is better than the other, just leads me to believe there’s more that hasn’t been clearly communicated to everyone as these teams both grow.
Many thanks!!! Responses were insightful :)
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I hear you. In that case, I am asking for the best of the worst