I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Wayfair (Boston, MA) in May 2014
Interview
Applied Online.
First interview with HR comprised of standard set of question.
2nd was technical telephone interview . Mostly SQL related and some OO concepts.
3rd was onsite interview which comprised of three interviews of 1 hour each. 1st was with senior software engineer and solution architect. They asked questions related to database design, normalization n some sql queries. Some question related to webservices and xml. Write a program to covert number to word. (quite easy).
2nd Interview was with two senior software engineers . They asked questions related to design patterns and solve given problem applying one of them. They asked to write a program which required recursive function call.
3rd was with Director. Overall strength and experience check. Question right from troubleshooting a web page load problem to database explain plans.
The process took two weeks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing was unsual. All the questions/answers using white board reflected the collaborative culture of the company.
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.
