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Software Engineer I Interview Experience

June 10, 2014
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Step 1: Spoke with recruiter. She asked me about prior projects, technologies I've worked with, previous salary, desired salary, etc.

Step 2: Phone interview with Software Engineer II. He asked me four main questions:

  1. What's the benefit of using a Web Service instead of SQL directly in client-side code?
  2. Given a singly linked list, swap the element at position k with the element k nodes from the end.
  3. What are the different SQL Joins?
  4. Write an SQL query.

Ultimately, I didn't have enough database experience to move onto the next round.

Questions

They put a strong emphasis on SQL skills.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 5 interview experiences for the Wayfair Software Engineer I role in United States.

Success Rate

40%
Pass Rate

Wayfair's interview process for their Software Engineer I roles in the United States is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive60%
Neutral40%
Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Wayfair's Software Engineer I interview process in United States.

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