Wayfair Work/life balance, benefits, WFH possibility
Hey there, first time poster here, not sure if this is the best thread. Interviewing soon at Wayfair, Boston (Senior Software Engineer 7+ YOE) Offer from hired.com $135k, $20k RSU, 15% bonus, $25k Sign on Current TC A measley 107k, no stock, no bonus My main question is, what's the work life balance like at Wayfair? (Working hours?, On call?, Weekend work?, Etc) and does Wayfair allow WFH? I currently WFH twice a week and given how much of a hike Boston is for me I'd like to at least keep 2 WFH days, ideally 3. I interviewed a while back at HubSpot like most Boston companies they seem to follow the core hours mentality, 10:00-2:00, does Wayfair do something similar, I wouldn't mind the commute in to Boston if I could take off early and finish my day from the train/home.
There are full remote teams.
Interesting, how is the work life balance like at Wayfair?
Depends on team but generally good.
I thought this is a Hired ads
My bad didn't realize blind was going to put a huge banner in the post
I have heard the WLB is great. I had an offer from Wayfair. Reasonably competitive compensation. Didn’t take it because I didn’t want to move to Boston.
Work life balance is good. Many times I work 6 hours a day. Until you get your work done no one care how many hours you work. They are also pretty chill about WFH. But all these factors depends on your team.
This is basically what I'm looking for similar to my current gig with better pay and benefits. Unfortunately my current company was bought out last year by a lunatic making very obviously dangerous decisions.
what team do you work for?
Pretty much what’s already been stated. WLB is very good but it literally depends entirely on your team as there is no standard across the board. Give you an example, I regularly wfh at least once a week, sometimes up to three times and literally nobody cares.
Search past threads about Wayfair, there’s a couple that are really eye opening.
Like the one about them selling optometrist chairs?
Wlb is reasonable, being on call can be terrible (engineering quality is really bad so lots of things break or never worked to begin with). Wfh depends on the manager, I would get agreement on 3 days a week before you start. Having said that I really wouldn't advise anyone to work there due to severe lack of engineering leadership. I know hubspot were advertising remote jobs recently so might be worth reaching back out to them
Spoken like someone who's been at Wayfair for at least 11 years.... Definitely make sure you don't end up working for this individual. Sounds like a stereotypical engineering manager who promotes based on lines of code written, total hours in your seat at Wayfair's office, and how quickly you respond on slack.
Smash away, baby.
Wayfair will just be a new shit hole hahaha
Why the fuck would anyone want to work for wayfair?
To GTFO of my current shithole haha
I could ask the same about Facebook....