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Senior Engineer Interview Experience

June 1, 2012
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

HR interactions/screens, Phone screen, The be-all-and-end-all so-called technical interview by relatively inexperienced, megalomaniacal individuals, like many companies now mistaking themselves for Google, aping their styles and even questions.

These days, interviewers want to appear smart, and steal Q&A from various puzzle books, asking questions that they could not themselves answer.

Who you know trumps!

Questions

Generic questions unrelated to skills, talents, and abilities.

They would not know talent if it slapped them across the face!

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Wayfair Senior Engineer role.

Success Rate

50%
Pass Rate

Wayfair's interview process for their Senior Engineer roles is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive50%
Neutral50%
Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Wayfair's Senior Engineer interview process.

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