Process
I submitted my resume at a school career fair and online, and I got a Skype interview within a week.
The interview session was actually two 45-minute sessions: one for culture fit and one for technical, each with a separate interviewer.
The culture fit interview was still mostly about my previous tech experience, including questions on the most difficult project and group project dynamics. It also included a basic coding question: how to merge and sort two unordered lists.
The technical interview consisted of a series of SQL queries, likely because I had SQL listed as a skill on my resume. No particular query stood out, but they did build on each other.
I received the offer about two weeks after the interview.
Questions
Given a table that stores many companies' historical stock values and their dates, write a SQL query to return the date and company X's last stock value for each day.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 163 interview experiences for the Wayfair Software Engineer role in United States.
Success Rate
Wayfair's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Wayfair's Software Engineer interview process in United States.
Wayfair Work Experiences
- 5.0Great place for engineersSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeBoston, Massachusetts, United StatesAugust 15, 2017Pros: Great people, lots of opportunities.Cons: Not big on working from home if that's what you want.
- 4.0Talented Team, Hit Or Miss ManagersSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeBoston, Massachusetts, United StatesJanuary 28, 2015Pros: Laid-back environment; many of the other engineers are quite talented. Managers seemed to be hit or miss. Mine was astoundingly excellent, but friends I had there would often complain about theirs. Great work-life balance. I only had to stay late once or twice in a year. Plus, it's right within walking distance of a ton of good restaurants, and you can go out whenever for food. Nobody's staring over your shoulder.Cons: There are a few people who are a bit difficult to get along with, but that's true of anywhere. Some of the managers are a little incompetent, so you might be very happy or very frustrated depending on what team you're on.
- 3.0Good place for new grads to start withSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeBoston, Massachusetts, United StatesJanuary 25, 2023Pros: They used to have a Wayfair Labs program for new grads, which was a one-month camp, and then they got placed onto teams. I'm not sure if the program still exists. Beautiful office in downtown Boston, right on top of the subway/train station. The benefits are not bad.Cons: Some teams have bad WLB. Relatively lower pay.
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