A company with some strong individuals and weak leadership - Anonymous employee Wayvia Employee Review

2.0
30 June 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There exists some strong individuals in various departments that are great to work with, but they don't stick around long. Decent benefits and strong PTO

Cons

Departments are incredibly siloed with a pervasive toxic atmosphere. Departments do not work together, and it often feels like they are fighting each other for their own individual goals. It always felt like it was "us vs them" for every department. Huge amounts of tech debt with very little buy-in to reduce it. Leadership does not seem interested in making active progress in modernizing systems, but are more than willing to talk about how they are. Very little results are seen from the talk. Very little communication between upper and lower management. It felt like lower level employees were not trusted because of the lack of transparency. Incredibly sales-driven. Sales are good - but we were constantly prioritizing based upon the loudest clients or salespeople. There was no adherence to roadmaps, everything was subject to last minute change. Huge tech debt + incredibly sales-driven led to chaotic atmosphere. You were never sure when something was going to crash and burn and you were likely to get thrown into a system you know nothing about to make critical fixes. No retrospectives were ever done on issues because the amount of "high priority" fixes would mean you would be in constant retrospectives. Failures were never talked about, especially with the company as a whole.

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25 May 2026
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Pros

Working on large-scale commerce and retail intelligence platforms. Technically interesting work, with exposure to APIs, cloud services, and data-heavy systems. Growing quickly as an engineer. Close collaboration across product and engineering teams.

Cons

Fluid priorities on some projects, which can affect timelines.

1.0
17 May 2026
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Pros

Worked with a lot of great colleagues.

Cons

- Behind the polished promises is a deeply disappointing and draining culture. - Leadership is fixated on metrics at the expense of people. - Managers openly show favoritism and promote bootlickers regardless of actual impact. - Getting anything meaningful done felt almost impossible, and even simple ideas were buried under endless meetings, pointless paperwork, and constant delays. - Upper management is completely disconnected from what teams actually deal with, and turnover became so frequent that no one even bothered questioning it anymore. - The loudest voices consistently got attention while real talent was ignored or pushed aside. - Deadlines made no sense given the workload placed on engineers, and the pay was nowhere near reflective of the pressure involved. - Save yourself the stress, there are far better places to work.

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