Panel interview with several managers; afterward, the managers collectively decided whether to hire and for what team. The meeting took about 90 minutes overall. The interviewers did not appear to have a fixed plan; they each yielded to each other when they ran out of things to say.
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Question 1
They asked me how to solve several hypothetical problems.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Wayfair in Aug 2021
Interview
Was contacted by WayFair recruiter on LinkedIn, was set up for Karat interview. The video/audio didn't work, had to switch to using phone with coding portal open.
No response after Karat interview.
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Question 1
Q1. Given two tables, user and friends, find list of all friends.
Q2. What would be eventual consistency in case of a banking application, another application which requires data to be updated in 10 milli sec.
Q3. Given an array of arrays, the sub array consists of child_id and parent_id e.g. [ [3, 5], [3, 6], [1, 5], [1, 6]] write a function to find if two ids have common parent or not.
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Wayfair in Aug 2020
Interview
Phone call to review my resume and experience.
They didn't read my resume. Apparently a Principal Software Engineer is an Enterprise Architect that does not write code and is the director of a division.
They also have a very very large number of engineers, which is very suspicious (sounds like a sweatshop), but for what they do is very inefficient.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me about my resume. They could have read it.