I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Wayfair in Dec 2023
Interview
The interview process consisted of 4 rounds, 1 hour each. The first two rounds were taken by a third party Foraysoft which hires wayfair employees in India on their payroll. The another 2 round were taken by wayfair team in US.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1st Round was coding round with a medium hackerrank problem to solve
2nd Round was system design round
The next 2 rounds were taken by team in US
Again the 3 round was coding and 4th Round was system design
The interviewer in the 4th round asked me to design a parking lot and I was able to deliver the class diagram and db design . He then asked me which database I should use if there are millions of requests. I tried to explain myself and come to a point but he said he had a meeting to attend to and left without a word. I was a bit annoyed with his behavior. System design round should be an open discussion and instead of discussing the approach with me he just left 5 minutes before the interview end time.
I dont know if they are looking for super humans to do their job and they themselves lack basic interview etiquettes. They wasted more than 4 hours of mine leaving me exhausted and anticipating for feedback which I got the next morning that I am rejected.
I solved all coding problems in 2 coding rounds with all the test cases passing. Also I discussed ways to optimize my approach . I also cleared the first system design round but things didn't go well in the last moments of 4th round where the interviewer left 5 mins before letting me explain my approach.
It was a complete waste of time appearing for their interview process.
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.
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%
Background check: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 2%
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