• The management; absolutely careless and ineffective, does not want to provide clear guidelines on how to move up in the company, also does not give clear guidelines on how to improve in specific areas - they fire great employees instead of growing and help flourish individuals. The best manager I had was one level above me (a L2) opposed to the other Senior Managers (L4's) I had in my time there. The L2 was patient and gave actual productive feedback. The other (3) managers I had either came straight in off the street with their MBA and did not know anything (nor cared to learn anything) or had been there for years where they were grandfathered into their position and only cared about her development and partying at tradeshows.
• Extremely catty environment; by the end of time here I had never worked in a more toxic environment than Wayfair. I tried to move teams twice from my first team, the first time my boss promised me a promotion and the second time she tried to set me up as performing poorly so I couldn’t move. Luckily the manager of the next team I moved to knew the “reputation” of the promotions team I was on and was ecstatic to have me.
• Promotes drinking/partying past the point of professionalism; I think it is great to promote social environments at the workplace - so having beer and wine in the office would seem great to me but during my time here I saw some of the most unprofessional behavior all across the level spectrum. I have seen directors wasted at tradeshows, directors fired because of the activities at tradeshows, managers wasted at pod outings, and employees being kicked out of company parties. I think it's hard to take Wayfair seriously when you see these things going on over a span of 3 years. The excuse of “were a startup” is way past it’s point.
