I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Wayfair (Boston, MA) in Sept 2017
Interview
When colleges send their people to the Wayfair recruiting team, they're not sending their best, believe me!
No, really, this was the worst interviewing experience I've ever encountered. Here's an overview of the Wayfair "process":
1. Phone screen with recruiter
2. Phone screen with data scientists
3. Half-day on-site interview where you reread your resume to a dozen people, two people at a time
4. Never hear from anyone at Wayfair ever again
My recruiter was rude and incompetent. Her failings are too numerous to list here, but the most astonishing part was getting ghosted after the onsite interview. That's definitely a first for me, but after reading other reviews on this site, it's apparently standard procedure over at Wayfair. Unbelievable.
I wouldn't interview at Wayfair if it were the last company on earth.
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