Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Wayfair with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 54% positive. To compare, the company-average is 51.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 188 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 Software Engineer according to 188 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 38%
One on one interview: 17%
Skills test: 14%
Presentation: 11%
Group panel interview: 8%
Personality test: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Background check: 3%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 2%
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Wayfair
Interview
Phone call, tech call, then onsite, then ghosted. The interview process was all over the place, and it seemed as if everyone there was incredibly fake.
They asked a few questions about caching but when I asked for clarification or any feedback they would not give any, this is kinda annoying when you can cache data in a few different ways and I suspect that the interviewer had little to no interest in even being there.
They also use their own custom built front end library which they decided to scrap, so working with that front end to any serious extent would make you un-hireable to a lot of places.
passed initial screening, was given a game home hackerrank interview assessment that was similar to a leetcode mediums. very specific set of problem I was not able to answer. I was then ghosted by the company without a formal rejection.
I applied online. I interviewed at Wayfair in Mar 2026
Interview
there are 3 rounds:
1 leetcode online assessment round
1 recruiter call round ask about back ground and personal information
1 hour long technical VO round
1 30 min long manager BQ round
3 Interviews. One automated leet code style interview. The next was a technical interview. The final was a personality interview. All interviews went well and were quite positive but was ghosted after the final one.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard leet code style algorithms that you passed based on speed.