Pros
I worked with a lot of great people from teammates to business partners. What Wayfair did a very good job of is letting lower level individuals (L1s & L2s) run with projects. It allowed me to run entire recruiting projects without having to have a manager present in every meeting. Again, I want to reiterate how great my teammates were. It was the best part of going to work everyday. Everyone I interacted with was positive and goal oriented. It's a great opportunity to work with awesome people. On compensation, I received a raise to work at Wayfair so I was very happy. I know a ton of people who are unhappy about their compensation because they took a step back to join. That's not the best practice in my opinion. If you are interviewing at Wayfair, ask yourself if you're going to hold a grudge against the company if you take less money to work there. It's a hot topic of conversation that I think is pointless. Wayfair didn't make you sign the offer. If you aren't happy with the offer they presented, find another company that will pay you. Wayfair offers a lot of work and if you start on the wrong foot because you feel like you're underpaid, you're going to have a bad time.
Cons
Senior Management was the real issue for me during my tenure at Wayfair. Wayfair does this weird business thing, (a lot of companies partake in this, I don't know why) where they move Directors from other Business units and have them lead business functions they've never run before. The best example of this being Wayfair's CTO that previously was a Director of Merchandising before being promoted. This individual has no background in Software. For HR and TA, they follow the same practice. Two of the top senior leaders have no background in HR or TA. It's tough when you have new Directors at the top because not only are you trying to educate them on how TA works but your also faced with the bad hires they've made. In 2018 at Wayfair, I had four managers, each for three month stints. Due to the fact that I worked in so much ambiguity, it was hard for me to get feedback and grow as an individual. I made many mistakes because I had to operate on an island. Unfortunately, Sr. Management was not sympathetic to my struggle which ultimately cemented my decision to leave Wayfair. It's a metric driven organization so if you don't have the positive hire numbers that they're looking for, you will be replaced. There's no room for a mitigating factors. Do I think Wayfair TA will be better for 2019 and beyond? I'm not sure and that's why I left. During my last week, there was an email out from the VP of HR asking the entire company if there were Sr. Managers from other business units that wanted to move over to TA. A sign of the times? Probably. I fear more of the same is in-store.
