I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Wayfair in May 2016
Interview
First round was a phone interview with a recruiter. Asked about interests and salary requirement. An online coding test was administered that you have unlimited time to work on. To be done and reviewed by second interview.
Second round interview was another phone interview with a software engineer from Wayfair. Review positions requirements, previous coding test, and ask a couple more coding questions.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given a two-dimensional array of strings, return all possible combination of words.
Example:
['grey','black']
['fox','dog']
['jumped','ran','growled']
Return:
grey fox jumped
grey fox ran
grey fox growled
black fox jumped
...
black dog growled
Given a string of brackets, return if string is valid or not. String is valid if all opening brackets have matching closing brackets.
Example:
{[()]} = valid
{()[]} = valid
{[} = invalid
Given an array of integers, change the order of the integers so negative numbers appear first then positive numbers. Do not change the order of the integers.
Example:
1,-5,-1,3,23,-12 => -5,-1,-12,1,3,23
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.
