I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Wayfair (Boston, MA) in Feb 2018
Interview
Entire process was quick and smooth. Started with phone call with recruiter, talking about likes/dislikes, career path (general stuff), and going over resume. She immediately let me know that I would be moving onto the second round. Second round consisted of submitting a code sample from a project that I worked on individually, and solving an hour long coding problem. Once submitted, she emailed back a few hours later asking to schedule a technical phone interview with a Software Engineer. That third round was two basic coding questions that I talked through and coded on a code collaborating website. The software engineer immedietely send his feedback to the recruiter, and she followed up with me to move on to the final round just a few hours after. The final round was another 30 minute phone call with the director of WayFair's lab program. Recruiter setup one more phone call to verbally give me the job offer and answer some remaining questions that I had.
Overall, incredibly fast and smooth interview process. My only concern was not having an onsite interview. I enjoy being able to see the company and it's culture at least once in person before joining a company, but in this case, there are tons of reviews and images available online about WayFair, so not a deal breaker.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
General questions like "talk about a project that showcases your coding ability", "talk about a project where you worked with a team"
Given an array of integers (positive and negative), sort so all negative numbers are on the left, and positive are on the right while retaining their original order.
Example:
Input: [-2, 4, -19, 4, 0]
Output: [-2, -19, 0, 4, 4]
Given a string, return a boolean value if the strings contains matching brackets
Example:
Input: "This is [a valid] string"
Output: True
Input: "This is an [invalid string"
Output: False
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.
