Wayfair Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – The interview process was very quick. The HR representative was friendly and very enthusiastic about the company. The interview with the hiring manager was uncomfortable and dry. The hiring manager acted smug and made no effort to connect during the interview. It also felt that he was a very inexperienced interviewer and was hiring for a position more senior than him.

Interview Details – 1 interview, it lasted around 30 minutes, explained the company and what Wayfair does, how they got started, company culture and then asked questions about success, working in a team, being detail oriented, etc.

Interview Details – Applied when they visited my university for the career fair.
Had a Skype interview back to back with two software engineers of the same team, the first one asked some behavioral questions and logical puzzles and technical stuff like algorithms and datastructures, whereas the second one asked pure tech questions ranging from web dev to databases. Also asked to code a program to convert any integer from 0 - 999 to a english string like you see on bank checks.
Both the interviewers were very friendly and approachable, and were helping out when I felt stuck on a question. They were interested in my thought process and not necessarily whether I cracked every question or not.
I am yet to get an offer from them. Just done with the interview today. Will update this once I get some response from them.

Reason for Declining – I had another better offer, so I decided to drop this one.

Interview Details – Well first you should apply online and then directly contact the HR person to follow up. They like that. Then when you do the interview, it will be a extremely long 2 hour one. They ask questions about your background, like your outside work or what not. And they basically ask you about the stuff you put on your resume. The first has are those type questions and puzzle brain teaser questions. The second half was a coding question.

Interview Details – This was the process for me:
Career Fair at my university -> interview offer by email a week later -> skype interview (I live in a different state) for 2 hours the week after that -> got an offer within 6 days for $30/hr

They were really nice. Doing a skype interview was really weird and I bought a microphone for it (DO THIS IT HELPS) for about $8.

Reason for Declining – I got an offer form amazon the week later and getting this job was supposed to be the stepping stone to that job. But these people are pretty cool - I would have really enjoyed working with them, I think and they thought the same about me.

Interview Details – I was contacted by a recruiter who talked my ear off about how great the company is, and spent more time describing her own career than asking questions about mine. The follow-up came via email, with an itinerary detailing whom I was to meet with and when, as well as directions to the building.

The itinerary stated that I was to sign in at the building's front desk , where they would tell me which elevator to take. Then I was to call the recruiter from the lobby phone once reaching my floor. To her credit, she was very accommodating, offering coffee or water.

I was shown around the different floors controlled by Wayfair, being eyeballed suspiciously by those who cared enough to glance up. I was shown a room literally overflowing with boxes that nobody had any idea how to handle, and was asked how I would go about "tightening it up."

When the interview began in earnest, I was seated in a small, chilly conference room; there was not enough room between the brick wall and the table to comfortably maneuver my chair. I met with two members of the team who asked the standard questions, i.e. What interested you in Wayfair, Why do you enjoy this type of work, etc. While they were friendly enough, they were ill-prepared for the interview.

The third person I met with was the supervisor to the first grow. She was equally friendly, and had me believing the interview was going quite well. At one point, she texted someone to ask if they were available to come meet with me. While trying to answer a question, the woman who received the message came barging into the room unannounced. The interview was effectively over at this point.

The other woman excused herself, and this new person -- with whom I was not scheduled to meet -- took a line of questioning with me that did not at all pertain to the job description I was given. She was cold, did not uncross her arms the entire time we were in the room together, and gave me the impression that I was somehow being blamed for her being pulled out of a meeting to meet with a candidate on short notice.

In the end, I decided that it was some sort of tactic; I let my guard down with the first three rounds of interviews and was blindsided by this woman whose personally was a complete 180 from the others'.

When I contacted the recruiter to follow up, I was told that somebody had been hired for a more senior position in the department (likely the one mentioned in Most Difficult or Unexpected Question below), and negotiated a higher starting salary. For that reason, they could not afford my requested salary, and so they offered the position to another candidate, at a lower rate.

Wayfair is notorious on Glassdor as a company that will not negotiate on salary; their offers are take-it-or-leave it. A lot of things do not add up regarding my experience interviewing with this company. I do not know the true reason they did not extend an offer, but I am confident it is not the same as the reason I was given.

Interview Details – I had a successful phone screen with their HR recruiter, with whom I networked thanks to an alumni connection. I was then passed on to interview with the VP of Ops on a phone interview. There were about 5 general areas of focus as listed in the job description, of which I was a good fit for four of them. However, it turned out my weakest area was the most important area of focus. I did not advance in the process.

Interview Details – At the time, Wayfair was still CSN Stores. A recruiter emailed me shortly after applying via my university job portal; we arranged an interview and I was sent an application to bring with me to the interview. I met with the hiring manager and had a relaxed and candid talk about the company, my experience, and the position. We decided during the interview that the position wasn't a good fit, and the hiring manager forwarded my resume for roles that might have been a better fit. I didn't end up hearing back from them, but my overall impression of the company was still positive.

There was a brief wait upon arrival, during which I had a chance to scope out the office. It's on the 9th floor of one of the Christian Science buildings (no affiliation), open plan with plenty of natural light. Everyone seemed busy without being frenetic.

Interview Details – -HR pre-Screen
-3 hour interview in office with test.

Negotiation Details – There was no negotiation phase.