There are tons of great people and relationships to build at Wayfair. The pay and benefits are both fair to great as well.
Job security is not so great, which should come as no surprise. Performance is not taken into account for layoffs, as many brilliant engineers I have met were impacted.
How much you enjoy this job also feels very dependent on which team you land on.
Initial call with the recruiter. This was followed by a phone interview round with coding on a shared editor (CoderPad). Problems were of algorithms (language of choice), design patterns (PHP), and debugging (SQL). Each round had a panel of 2 intervi
1. Phone call with recruiter (technical questions on HTTP, SQL, OOP concepts, e.g., the difference between abstract and normal classes, SQL injection, and cookies). 2. Second call with a Wayfair engineer (run through PHP code, assess understanding o
First round: * 1 Karat interview with 5 system design questions and 1 LeetCode medium question. Second round: 4 interviews split over two days: * Coding round * System design * App architecture and data modeling * Behavioral
Initial call with the recruiter. This was followed by a phone interview round with coding on a shared editor (CoderPad). Problems were of algorithms (language of choice), design patterns (PHP), and debugging (SQL). Each round had a panel of 2 intervi
1. Phone call with recruiter (technical questions on HTTP, SQL, OOP concepts, e.g., the difference between abstract and normal classes, SQL injection, and cookies). 2. Second call with a Wayfair engineer (run through PHP code, assess understanding o
First round: * 1 Karat interview with 5 system design questions and 1 LeetCode medium question. Second round: 4 interviews split over two days: * Coding round * System design * App architecture and data modeling * Behavioral