Excitement buzzed in the virtual air — after multiple years of work, we were finally going live! As we ramped up our feature toggle, we were met with words no engineer wants to hear: “Your service isn’t performing fast enough. We need you to toggle off.” Our team quickly pivoted…
On August 2nd, Wayfair Engineering hosted our second annual Community Coding Day. You can read about our first annual Community Coding Day here and a complimentary school-year program that I built, called ENGage, here. Our goal for these programs is to expose students from under-served communities to Computer Science and…
As a 2018 summer software engineer intern, I had the opportunity to bring my vision of a Community Coding Day to life. Our goal for Community Coding Day was to inspire students from underrepresented groups to get involved in STEM – software engineering in particular – as well as provide…
This summer, Wayfair hosted its first ever Community Coding Day. Through a partnership with three summer camp programs serving communities in the Greater Boston area, we welcomed 120 middle school students into our offices and led them through a day of engaging computer science activities. Our goal for the day…
