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.