Wayfair
About us
Who are we?
Wayfair is the destination for all things home and a place that helps everyone, anywhere, create their feeling of home.
We are a truly global company and THE leader in all things home and e-commerce - we've come a long way since day 1 but as we see it, this is just the start of our journey!
Fast Facts
- Founded in 2002
- Active Customers +20M
- Products +18M
- Suppliers +12,000
- Net Revenue 2019 $9.1B
- Employees 16,900
All of this success and growth would never have been possible without Wayfair's biggest assets, that being our fantastic people and the culture that our colleagues bring to the table.
Wayfair Culture Overview
- Analytical by nature
- Strong sense of vision and purpose
- Collaborative
- Open culture
- Meetings take place in open areas and are inclusive, efficient and valuable
- Flat hierarchy
- Customer focused
- Low ego but very ambitious
- Move fast, and learn from mistakes
Wayfair is setting its sights on some extremely ambitious (but attainable!) goals for the future and with this ambition comes the opportunity for you to grow with us into what will most definitely be an exciting journey!
- People: 250+
- Founded: 2002
Technology
DevOps
(4)Infrastructure
(5)Tools
(5)Wayfair Tech is compromised of several different teams (from Ad Tech all the way through to Fraud) working on a number of different challenges on a daily basis.
As such, the development and working environment that you could expect to encounter varies depending on where you see yourself in the grander scheme of Wayfair and your career ambitions.
Testing
Manual
Fully automated
Ops
DevOps
Dedicated Ops team
Time to deploy
More than 5 hours
Less than 1 hour
Benefits
Culture
(1)Health & Wellness
(1)Financial benefits
(4)Vacation
(1)Professional development
(1)Diversity
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- People: 250+
- Founded: 2002
Hire with us!
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Use this space to connect with our community. Companies with profiles typically get 20% more applications!
How we work
Our teams are mostly shaped by the following ideas:
- We’re empowered and accountable to iteratively solve meaningful problems – Marty Cagan
- Our people have ever-growing feeling of mastery, autonomy and purpose – Daniel Pink
- Our team is antifragile and can become better in times of hardship – N. N. Taleb
Living the philosophy outlined above, we put emphasis on:
- Vision: Product-driven vision (enough guidelines, without constraining details), where each team member has the context to contribute to or understand the reasoning behind our decisions
- Process: Developing MVP-first, always proving hypotheses and maintaining a low cost to pivot
- Tech: Industry standard tech, knowing how to push the boundaries of Wayfair Engineering
- Quality & velocity: Strong testing and automation culture, focusing on efficient experience (e.g. frequent unblocked deployments) rather than static KPIs (e.g. fixed unit test coverage)
- Teamwork: Pair programming, frequent ad-hoc team sessions, light calendar load, flexible schedules
- Fun: Culture with a lot of mutual respect, yet lighthearted enough not to take ourselves too seriously and have plenty of care, fun and laugh
- Influence: push the bar higher and bring along other teams on the journey of building great tech
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