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      Data Scientist Interview

      6 Jun 2016
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Boston, MA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Wayfair (Boston, MA) in Apr 2016

      Interview

      I applied online for the data scientist position within the algorithms unit, and a recruiter contacted me the following day to schedule a phone interview. The interview was a typical behavioral interview. I then had a follow-up call with a member of the team and we discussed my projects and experiences in more detail. After the call, I was asked to send a code sample in any language to show my programming style, after which they invited me onsite for a 4-5 hour in-person interview. It took about 2 weeks from when I applied to get an onsite interview. The onsite interview comprised of four sessions during which I brainstormed solutions to some data problems that were presented to me, presented a data science project I had worked on in the past (I had been informed about this before the interview, so I had time to prepare), and did some data analysis on a computer for a problem that they were addressing on the team. Before leaving the office, the recruiter met with me again and asked about my salary expectations, start date, and also informed me that I would receive a decision in a couple days. After the interviews the manager told me they were interviewing other candidates, but I should feel free to contact him if I had any follow up questions. The recruiter emailed me to say everyone had "great" things to say about meeting me, and I would "definitely" get a decision in a week. After a week, I heard nothing and emailed the recruiter to see if a decision had been made - no answer! I waited another week to email the manager to check on my application status - no answer too! Even my jobvite application still says "in process" and it has been well over a month since the interviews. Obviously I'm not holding my breath concerning this job, but I was very irritated that Wayfair did not have the decency to tell me the outcome of my interviews. I felt it was extremely rude of them to totally ignore my email inquiries after we had previously communicated several times by email and phone and I had taken the time to honor their multiple interview requests.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Describe a project you worked on outside work/school How would you explain your project in layman terms, and also to someone with a tech background What other companies are you interviewing with
      Answer question
      5

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      Data Scientist Interview

      26 Mar 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Wayfair in Mar 2026

      Interview

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      Question 1

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      Data Scientist Interview

      3 Nov 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Boston, MA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      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

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      Question 1

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      Data Scientist Interview

      7 Sept 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Chicago, IL
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Wayfair (Chicago, IL)

      Interview

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