The worst experience I ever had in my life!!! - Virtual SSC Wayfair Employee Review

1.0
Nov 1, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

What pros? They are faking it all the time... They simply don't care for you, you are not a person, not even a number... You are expendable!!

Cons

I could write an essay on the cons... I have never seen anything like that before, the micromanagement is their priority, not you... They will try everything to destroy your soul, they will even try to make you feel guilty for odd things. They constantly send you e-mails, texts and Skype / Hangouts messages about everything, even to ask what hours you have worked in order for payroll to adjust your pay etc... Seriously???? Is their job to find out how many hours employees work, they are good on micromanagement but not in their duties... You need to raise tickets all the time for everything, you dont have the time to do so but they dont care, but when your "not ready" time is not the best as you needed time for those tickets (time that they dont provide), they dont provide you with time to follow up with your customers but you have to follow up, they dont give you after call time but you need to take notes and do what is needed to be done to handle a case.... You take call after call withe excellent quality on calls and targets without the minimum recognition as they will make you feel like a trash in case you will do a tiny mistake!! Management and other employees in general will constantly bomb you with messages on Skype etc, while you are on calls, demanding you to reply ASAP, adding more unhealthy stress in you but they always add at the end of each message a fake smiley face to make the cruel messages look kind!!!!! They are just sucking your soul out by being contstantly monitored, no break for toilet, especially when its busy YOU CAN NOT take a break if you need toilet as on the 2nd minute you will receive a message asking you if everything is okay.... They never told us during the interviews that we will need to sell and that will be very important part of our role and then, after the nesting period, they started demanding from us to sell, and there is a target to meet also, if you wont meet the target you will be coached on how to sell more. Bonus is very difficult to get as the targets to be reached are too many and every month the bar is raising and gets very difficult to reach them... To make the long story short, everything that previous reviewers have wrote to their negative reviews, I experienced it and left me a bitter taste on my mouth as I lost my precious time and many other better offers as thought that working from home would be better and less stressfull... So foolish of me not to take in mind the bad reviews I read for the Company before start... They dont take no as an answer and if you insist on something that doesnt feel right, they will do everything to show you that you are the one who is wrong even if you are not... Every day they put you side by side with the rest of your colleagues on a spreadsheet to show to everyone who did well and who did bad... If you havent met all of your targets (more than 15 targets to be reached), then they will tell you on your face while in team meetings how bad you did and that you need to improve this, even if you are trying, they dont care... The shifts are constantly changing, while you are on calls, you receive an e-mail stating that your schedule has been changed and you should be logged in to e-mails xD And that happens alot, you can be 2 hours on calls, then 1 hour on emails, then 1 hour on calls , take your lunch and then 2 hours on emails, then 2 hours on calls....! That makes you feel sick and very stressed... Again, I feel terribly sorry for myself and I regret that I wasted my time, I am feeling so stressed even when I sleep I can not relax anymore, I am not one of them and many others feel the same, many of my team mates left already, others left during training and nesting (lucky them). No career opportunities. Nicht !!! Not a good work / life balance as the shifts vary alot!!

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Wayfair Response
7y
Thank you for expressing your concerns, and we are sorry to hear you feel this way about your virtual experience at Wayfair thus far. As our processes evolve, we are continuously working to strengthen the flow of this new workforce. We would urge you to reach out to someone on HR to discuss your concerns, and our team is taking your feedback into consideration.

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Let's talk. The company has been growing like crazy, and one thing that was never thought about was "can we actually hire at a sustainable rate, and scale accordingly?" The answer was no on both counts. Software engineers at Wayfair have a history of disappearing. People who enter labs have an especially low success rate (70% make it through, and less than 50% last a whole year). It's basically their way to run people through a burnout gauntlet, and see who survives. And then you have the stories of the people who come in to work and are just asked to resign. You'll see hints of it here on Glassdoor if you dig, and it's even worse than what you read. They actually gathered all the engineers for a big meeting at the beginning of this year. And they said that they were sorry that people felt scared and were sad that people felt like management didn't care. Which is exactly how we felt. They promised that their door was open, and they were going to work hard to set things right. One person out of 500 stood up and asked a really cutting question. AND THEN THEY FIRED HIM! And there were 3 completely different official reasons given about it. It's crazy. The leaders also started up an engineering meeting to keep everyone on the same page and answer anonymous questions. One time someone asked why we couldn't get snow days off, because it was tough to shovel for 3 to 4 hours and still work an 8 hour day. So the leaders proceeded to talk down to us and reprimand us for even thinking about asking a question like this. Turnover has been high over the past year, and the best people are leaving. This worries management, but they still have no idea that the problem is actually them creating a terrible environment. So if you're a good person who cares about the person next to you and leaving things better than you found them, don't bother applying here. But if you're not, and you just want to keep your head down and not question anything, then this is the perfect place for you. And if that's what you want, Wayfair gets 5 stars. Amazing career opportunities if you want to have the same job forever. Incredible senior management that value untrustworthiness. A fantastic culture of watching people next to you disappear. It's truly a perfect company.

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Wayfair Response
8y
First, I wanted to thank you for providing feedback. Second, I am very sorry to hear that your experience was far from ideal. I know it can be hard to give feedback if you feel management is the problem, but leadership would love to learn about these issues to refine the Wayfair employee experience. We do try to create an open and transparent environment; one thing we’ve started doing is department-wide anonymous surveys. This has been helpful in identifying issues where people don’t feel comfortable speaking up for whatever reason and pinpoint where any issues may exist. As you noted, the company is growing very quickly - our Engineering team alone has grown tenfold over the past five years. I won’t pretend we get it right all the time, but we do aim to scale our teams and our systems reasonably to meet the rapid growth of our business, and we rely on employee feedback to refine these processes. To that end, we’ve put a lot of time and energy into our interview process. And, we closely track our voluntary and involuntary attrition rates to make sure we are keeping high employee retention and so that we can immediately nip any potential issues in the bud. For Wayfair Labs, we’ve made huge strides since the beginning of this program, and our average success rate is now over 90%, with several classes at 100%. We also run management trainings on giving, receiving and soliciting feedback. In these trainings - and in general - we encourage respect for all teammates and partners, communication and collaboration, and we try create opportunities for people to take on new challenges. I am very excited about the work we’re doing to solve tough challenges and there’s an exciting opportunity for our employees to do big things – our goal is to build a team that feels encouraged and empowered to do so. I’m very sorry you didn’t have the experience we try to cultivate. Once again, thank you for this feedback.
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