Woot reviews about "culture"

Priorities tend to change fairly often and the workload can be overwhelming. Senior leadership is Seattle-based so things occasionally feel disjointed.

longer hours on some days because of time difference from PST/CST

As a developer, coding is a daily struggle. The development environments are extremely fickle and break constantly. The testing environments are not sufficient to test any changes and lead to tons of changes being rolled back. The majority of our tools and scripts are outdated, tribal knowledge is vanishing by the day, and project deadlines might as well be chosen randomly. Decision making seems perpetually done in a panicked state, with priorities changing with the wind. Software managers are ex-devs but frequently act as Project Managers leading to a fairly large disconnect between management and the development team. Quick results are valued much more highly than doing something slowly and correctly. Woot's culture is meant to be quirky and fun, but this frequently crosses the line to immaturity and an excuse for a poor experience. Fired all the writers and the impact on the site is palpable.

Completely lost it's great company culture. Alienated most of its core customer base - true fans that made the company what it once was - unique and a fun site to visit every day. Alienated many vendors by becoming too demanding and painful to do business with. Lost it's focus in selling a limited selection of really great deals to selling a huge assortment of mediocre deals. Same as anywhere else, unfortunately. Summary: replaced it's good employees with a bunch of inept and clueless folks that don't understand the business, made it difficult to have meaningful and mutually beneficial vendor relationships, swapped its core fanatical customer base for who knows what (anyone into traffic data)?

Growing pains from rapid expansion, many new associates and managers due to the recent BOOM in business.