I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Wayfair in Dec 2021
Interview
First interviewer didn’t show up for a FIVE HOUR panel interview that Wayfair scheduled. Second interviewer was acting in an insulting manner so I walked out.
Wasting time talking to recruiters took up 1 hour of those five hours. They had 30 minutes scheduled for a recruiter asking behavioral type questions, which is worthless because a recruiter won’t know how to follow up on a behavioral question if you didn’t answer it to the company’s liking. 15 minutes were dedicated to talking to recruiters at the beginning and end of the interview process.
The process:
Recruiter screen - 30 minutes - 1 hour long
Karat interview (3rd party company that issues live, recorded technical interviews) - 1 hour long
5 hour panel interview
Thanks to Wayfair and Chewy I am never doing an interview that is longer than an hour and a half ever again.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
API design questions were the questions the interviewer who actually showed up asked
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.
