I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Wayfair in Nov 2016
Interview
2 phone calls, first with a recruiter and the next with a member of the team. The questions were fair and the discussion was informative. Most of the questions about my previous experience were simply to see if I could explain something technical in a way that others could understand. Not a lot of deep question on specific machine learning algorithms. I had other questions for the recruiter and she was always quick to get back to me.
Afterwards I submitted a code sample and heard back a few days later to schedule a time to meet the team in person. 3 cases with current data scientists and a few one-on-one interviews with management. The cases typically presented some snippet of data alongside some questions about how to approach making a prediction model of some kind. The questions were pretty open ended. They were more interested in seeing how I approached the problem and if I could collaborate well in a group setting.
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