I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Wayfair (New York, NY)
Interview
Approached by recruiter. Had a screening with the recruiter and then brought on-site where I talked to one peer Data Science Manager, two Engineers, Chief Architect and the Director of Data Science. The HR never followed up after the interview, and I was also not interested so never pinged them. Overall this was probably the most weird and pointless interview I ever had.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1.) Peer data scientist asked a probability problem and gave me a printed out algorithm and asked to explain what it does. Both were very esoteric and I am not sure what they were supposed to test...
2.) Engineers asked simple algorithm in Python and then attempted to ask about how I would detect robots in the server logs to account for them in estimating conversion rates. There were actually a junior and a senior engineer. The junior engineer was just listening in, and the interview was dominated by the senior guy. It probably was partly my fault, but the senior guy asking the question was unable to communicate clearly what he was asking and eventually became preachy and arrogant.
3.) The chief architect asked a geometrical brain teaser (I assume to test my thinking process?) and then we had a chat about the company and primarily his initiatives.
4.) The director of data science asked standard management questions.
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.
Interview questions [1]
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
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How can u filter products which are similar to light lamp on wayfair site