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Software Engineer Interview Experience

May 1, 2016
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The first round was a phone interview with a recruiter. They asked about your interests and salary requirements.

An online coding test was administered, and you had unlimited time to work on it. This was to be completed and reviewed by the second interview.

The second round interview was another phone interview with a software engineer from Wayfair. They reviewed the position requirements and your previous coding test, and asked a couple more coding questions.

Questions

Given a two-dimensional array of strings, return all possible combinations 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 the string is valid or not. A 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 relative order of the integers.

Example: 1,-5,-1,3,23,-12 => -5,-1,-12,1,3,23

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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

31%
Pass 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

Positive53%
Neutral24%
Negative23%

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

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