I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Wayfair in Mar 2018
Interview
Wayfair has one of the best interviews processes. Though I was not offered, I felt really good about the company. Recruiters are really nice, and organized.
I did a total of 6 rounds of interviews, 3 telephonic and 3 in-person. After the telephonic interviews, they asked me to fly to Boston. Wayfair actually paid for my Flight, Hotel and other expenses, which was nice.
In every round after first call, there was an coding task. Though I was not able to complete the coding task during 2nd and 3rd rounds, they called for onsite because they liked my approach to problem solving.
In-person interviews were more like discussions than question-answer sessions.
4th round was with a Engineering manager who grilled me about the process.
5th round was with Software Engineers, who asked me a programming question about elevators and another about System design.
6th round was with Software Engineers again, and this time they had me do an actual coding task and a database design.
HR reached out and scheduled the discussion - discussed the details of the position.
One Online assignment
Scheduled one DSA round. - medium leetcode
System design round discussion - where we discussed the details of the different component of the system
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They always ask the same question from each of the candidates.
I applied online. I interviewed at Wayfair (Toronto, ON) in Aug 2025
Interview
Overall ok but the coding test environment is like a black box that you just can’t debug. If you solve by debugging, you’re doomed. LeetCode won’t really prepare you for this.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Wayfair (Bengaluru) in Apr 2025
Interview
The 1st round was Coding round on Hacker rank, the question was to validate if given set of IP address or not.
The second question was on Task scheduling which was based on hashmap.
Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Wayfair with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 28% positive. To compare, the company-average is 51.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 17 days to get hired, when considering 67 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Wayfair overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Wayfair as a Senior Software Engineer according to 67 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 32%
One on one interview: 22%
Group panel interview: 13%
Presentation: 12%
Skills test: 11%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Personality test: 3%
Background check: 2%
Drug test: 2%
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