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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The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Wayfair (New York, NY)
Interview
HR contacted via LinkedIn. Had HR call, HR sounded disinterested and would talk too fast to keep up, like reading a script. Moved forward to Karat Video interviews. scheduled a video interview, was assigned a interviewer which changed on the day of interview. Video interview has lengthy questions where most time goes in the interviewer just reading the question whole. you have 2 mins per question to answer. Coding task was LC easy-medium (follow up). Coded both. never got feedback. got a survey for interview experience which gives coupons on completion for their own website. WOW!!
Overall felt a waste of time.
Also the disinterested HR didn't even knew when my Karat interview happened.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
SD questions and coding LC easy-medium. Karat interviewing system lags multiple times in the process of interview. Felt giving like giving interview to a robot.
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.