Disgrace and full of lies - Sales Consultant Wayfair Employee Review

1.0
Sep 10, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work from home, that means that you are saving time and money

Cons

Slavery like policies. When being interviewed I've been told on the great an "rapid" progression opportunities and the great atmosphere in general. I would like to mention that rapid usually means rapid, the progression opportunities that the company offers are exactly the same as for the other companies (at least 9 months in current position) * Progression opportunity only if you are the managers favourite and only if you manage somehow to exceed the targets or if you keep snitching on others. 1- During the interview, no one has explained the exact volume of the job or your duties responsibilities and targets loads of targets and you being another number for the company. * You have to stick to your targets and the company doesn't help * Very easy to mess your adherence when you are being changed from emails to calls every hour or so or if your schedule is very messy * You have to make sure that in case of any IT issue you have to follow up on your adherence as your managers won't and you will lose your precious bonus if you have more than 3 late occurrences. * You have no aftercall time allocated for you. * You don't have time allocated to follow up with the customers or couriers (And you need to do it a lot) * Month to month your metrics and targets will be higher and higher and your bonus harder to earn 2- No one ever mentioned that I have to be in front of my PC having only one break of unpaid 45 minutes. So despite you working for 8:30H in total, you are getting paid only for 7:45H and I am not even sure if that is 100% legal. (7:45H no breaks included/no breaks paid) 3- No one ever mentioned during the interview that you are not allowed to take any annual leave during November or December so basically you can find yourself in a situation when you're gonna lose your annual leave as you cannot move more than 5 days for the next year. (Again not sure if it is 100% legal) * To get any paid day off you need to be extremely lucky 4- Very poor support from managers or coaches that very often are attending to the same training as you are(that said they have exactly the same knowledge as you or even less) 5- Benefits are kept to minimal they don't even offer the compensation of your internet. And the VHI is a very basic program 6- The salary offered is very low compared to the workload and the demands that the company has even if you exceed your targets they keep asking for more (as you are not allowed for any Not Ready time) * That said, if you need to go to the toilet better think it twice and keep an empty bottle next to you so you won't mess with your Not Ready time (Not Ready Time means that you are unavailable for new call or email) 7- Also forgot to mention that you are constantly monitored and that you need your camera turned on every time, screens recorded every call or email, and if you dare to go to the toilet or to make a coffee you will be reached by someone with a question "is everything ok?" pretending to be nice but we all got the meaning of it 8 - The company is very toxic together with the people working there, multiple times faking or even passive-aggressive even tho we are on targets or even exceed. * Due to all above the employee turn over is very big and will be even worse if the company keeps the same slavery toxic and fake tactics. 9- Last and not least a tip for people with great experience: If you have experience please go somewhere else where you will be valued and admired, if you are coming here with hope of progression only due to your experience you are strongly mistaken and you are about to loose your valuable time!

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Pros

Wayfair is a fantastic company if you're a software engineer who's looking to keep quiet, and not speak up when management treats you like garbage. And it excels at finding leaders who are willing to go the extra mile to be untrustworthy and make you feel like your job isn't safe (and for real, it's not).

Cons

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
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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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