Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Wayfair with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 42% positive. To compare, the company-average is 51.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Scientist roles take an average of 22 days to get hired, when considering 96 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 Data Scientist according to 96 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
Presentation: 21%
One on one interview: 17%
Group panel interview: 7%
Skills test: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Other: 2%
Background check: 1%
Personality test: 1%
Drug test: 1%
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Phone screen followed by another phone interview followed by in person. Phone screening with hiring person with no technical skills. Just a waste of time. Round 2 and 3 are difficult.
I applied online. I interviewed at Wayfair in Mar 2026
Interview
Received the Online Assessment on Hackerrank, including data manipulation & data insights. Data manipulation was on Pandas, not difficult, and data insights were an excel spreadsheet, and drew some insights and recommendations from it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Inspect the data. What insights do you get? Give recommendations based on your insights, and explain how you would evaluate and what the possible risks are.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Wayfair (Boston, MA) in Oct 2025
Interview
Technical Interview on SQL and Python. Makes you program a machine learning model and write intermediate SQL commands. Overall, not too difficult, and it takes roughly 75 minutes. I would suggest praticing on Hackerrank
Very average interview where the questions were ambiguous. It was very ambiguity. And not clear on the requirement. So in short not difficult. Hard to say if anyone should interview for this company
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How can u filter products which are similar to light lamp on wayfair site