I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Wayfair (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2022
Interview
One hiring manager round followed by a technical (coding + system design short answers) and finally an on-site. Unfortunately, they didn't go through with the on-site because the role was filled
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
We are working on a clone of Facebook that allows users to share content with their social network. Users view posts in an infinite stream. Our product only has a few thousand users but we expect it to be as popular as Facebook very soon! We want to add a live numeric count to every post showing how many friends the post's author has. Right now, our database has two tables, 'user' and 'user_relationship'. Each friendship relation appears in the database exactly once. The database definition includes: USER 'id' (primary key) 'name' 'created_date' USER_RELATIONSHIP 'id' (primary key, unique to each relationship) 'user1_id' (indexed) 'user2_id' (indexed) 'start_date' What would you do with the database in order to provide this feature for use at a large scale?
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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