I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Wayfair (Boston, MA) in Feb 2019
Interview
I start the interview in Feb, 2019 . Firstly I had the first round video interview for introducting projects experience and data science cases. Then I passed to final onsite interview which included three rounds, two of them are technical and one is behavioral.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what's the difference between random forest and gradient boosting?
I applied online. I interviewed at Wayfair in Mar 2026
Interview
Received the Online Assessment on Hackerrank, including data manipulation & data insights. Data manipulation was on Pandas, not difficult, and data insights were an excel spreadsheet, and drew some insights and recommendations from it.
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Question 1
Inspect the data. What insights do you get? Give recommendations based on your insights, and explain how you would evaluate and what the possible risks are.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Wayfair (Boston, MA) in Oct 2025
Interview
Technical Interview on SQL and Python. Makes you program a machine learning model and write intermediate SQL commands. Overall, not too difficult, and it takes roughly 75 minutes. I would suggest praticing on Hackerrank
Very average interview where the questions were ambiguous. It was very ambiguity. And not clear on the requirement. So in short not difficult. Hard to say if anyone should interview for this company
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Question 1
How can u filter products which are similar to light lamp on wayfair site
