Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Wayfair with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 54% positive. To compare, the company-average is 51.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 188 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Wayfair overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Wayfair as a Software Engineer according to 188 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 38%
One on one interview: 17%
Skills test: 14%
Presentation: 11%
Group panel interview: 8%
Personality test: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Background check: 3%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 2%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Wayfair (Boston, MA) in Feb 2022
Interview
1) Phone screen with recruiter
2) Karat interview. It was some rapid fire system design questions as well as a coding round. If you get one right, they iterate a bit.
3) Final onsite was four rounds. Behavioral, Coding, Application Design (OOD and DB design), and System Design.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Something like: design an application to manage a shop that rents out stuff to customers
Design a large distributed system that provides some arbitrary service focusing on bottlenecks, tradeoffs, CAP, etc
Definitely know string manipulation and space/time complexity for coding. Know how to deliver good object oriented code and write tests in your language. Have a deep understanding of the language you choose or you won't finish. There are multiple questions.
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.