I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Wayfair (Boston, MA) in Aug 2015
Interview
The interview process was fast and super simple. Recruiter contacted me and scheduled a 30 min. phone interview. Phone interview involved code pairing using hackerrank and some basic coding questions were asked. Immediately on the next day after phone screen, recruiter contacted me and helped me schedule an onsite interview. The onsite interview had 3 rounds; 1 hr each and involved a lot of white boarding. There was a lot of emphasis on SQL (design database and write queries). All the interviewers were very nice and patient and were fully involved in the interview process. They also gave hints whenever I got stuck and were very engaging. Additionally they all seemed genuinely interested in hearing my solutions and it felt more like a discussion instead of traditional question-answer interview. Within 2 days of the onsite interview, recruiter called and made an offer. Unfortunately due to personal reasons I couldn't take it. Overall the company and work culture seemed great. The interviewers discussed some modern frameworks they have built in-house which seemed very cool. The location of Boston office is awesome and structurally it's a very modern office.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Phone Interview : Reverse a string, determine if string is a palindrome, given an array that contains duplicates find the only non-duplicate element.
Onsite : Find the depth of a binary tree, Given an array of size N and a random number M (M < N), generate an array of size M that contains random element from the main array (this is in CTCI)
passed initial screening, was given a game home hackerrank interview assessment that was similar to a leetcode mediums. very specific set of problem I was not able to answer. I was then ghosted by the company without a formal rejection.
I applied online. I interviewed at Wayfair in Mar 2026
Interview
there are 3 rounds:
1 leetcode online assessment round
1 recruiter call round ask about back ground and personal information
1 hour long technical VO round
1 30 min long manager BQ round
3 Interviews. One automated leet code style interview. The next was a technical interview. The final was a personality interview. All interviews went well and were quite positive but was ghosted after the final one.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard leet code style algorithms that you passed based on speed.