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Anyone here work at Wayfair? I have an on-site next week and want to learn more about life on the inside. Akamai has unlimited (30 days/year) vacation time. What the vacation time like @wayfair? How are the salaries? I expect to be coming in as a senior test enablement engineer.
What does unlimited/30 days mean? If it's 30 days a year then how can it be unlimited.
30 days before director approval. Director approval beyond that.
Thanks for clarifying. Sounds sweet. Does Akamai require extensive networking knowledge for 3 YOE?
You only get unlimited PTO if you tech out at L4. L3 and below are fixed days based on seniority.
What are L3 vs L4 exactly?
L4 is basically legit Senior eng but also manager responsibilities. Not many L4 individual contributors at the company.
Just ask the recruiter for PTO and benefit details. And ask for the salary range before you do the on-site to avoid wasting everyone's time. I believe the salaries are competitive and are always negotiable. The biggest problem is the bad engineering practices
Salaries are competitive for Boston although it won't be in the first tier of Facebook or Google or second tier of Amazon, Microsoft, Hubspot, Tripadvisor, etc. Wayfair is trying to ensure better software development practices. The team (test enablement) is fairly new (~6 months) but there is definitely a lot of opportunity to shape software engineers to do the right thing!
Do we actually think the test enablement team is going to get the support they need? How long do you think they will actually be around?
Former Wayfair person here, (2years, right out of college): Pros: good wlb, nice people and culture Cons: horrendous tech stack, old code, everything is SQL and PHP, few opportunities to implement intelligent system designs. If you want to learn and improve, don't go there.
Agree with this except with the caveat some teams get highly political. Some places have PM to Eng of 1:1 others of 1:25. We recently implemented STOs basically corporate Game of Thrones. Promotions and even raises are highly political as directors decide these without managers in the room.
https://www.teamblind.com/article/Technical-incompetence-at-Wayfair----is-there-anything-worse-43wn8iLT