Wayfair Interview Questions

Anna D. - "Situation. Initially, my team consisted of young guys who were hired by team leaders based on hardskills. Previously, the company had just begun the transition from a process-based to a product-based approach. In the process of searching and selecting candidates, the interests of the team and the product owner were not taken into account. The candidate didn't pass a behavioral interview on soft skills. Thus, the team consisted of diverse and talented guys, but not very interested in fast wor"See full answer

Chayan R. - "Clarifying questions: You said on average, having 5 reviews can have positive impact, so I am assuming we will plan to pay for 500 reviews. Is that correct or am I missing anything here ? One information which seems to be missing here to come up with the exact price per review is the number of active visitors from which we are calculating the sales conversion rate. Do we have that information or I should include that as a variable in the price per review. ( assuming we are taking that as a var"See full answer

Anonymous - "Functional requirements: (a) location tracking (b) check-in at nearby place (c) view historical checkins with how much time user stayed there (d) Mark checkout when out of proximity (e) analytics - checkins by user at given loc, top n places Out of scope: (a) checkin sharing with followers Non functional: (a) low latency (b) high availability (c) eventual consistency Scale: (a) QPS: 10M DAU * 2 checkins /86400 seconds (b) Yearly Data Volume: 10M* 0.1 KB *365 days HLD: user -> location servic"See full answer

Mala R. - "Understand the product success metrics no. of orders Rugs to be sold online. Purchased to enhance the decor of the room or to keep you home warm. Market Size lets take US only 100m homes ~ 300m population Atleast 1 per home and if we get 5% of the market 5000000 * Avg cost of the rug - $100 500m Target audience High class - luxury class middle class - target audience - highest tam below avg who cannot afford Reaching and messaging Channels SEO - slow takes longer Paid"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Favorite Product question with a slight twist. We have a constraint: picking a marketplace. Let's go over the Favorite Product formula before we begin: Choose a product and briefly explain what it is Who are the users? What are their pain points? How did competitors solve it in the past? How does this product address these pain points differently and better? How would you improve it/make it better? Summarize Let's start! Choose a"See full answer

Anonymous Beaver - "Clarifying questions: Reason to add this feature? No particular reason but let's assume it's an industry practice Any resource constraints? None for now I am assuming all furniture sold on the site is Wayfair's and not sold by third parties? Yes Approach: Industry, company and product profile and target audience Wayfair is a e-commerce company selling furniture. Direct competitors are other online only businesses like amazon. Indirect competition include physical stores like home depot/l"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Technical question. It tests your ability to understand high level technical concepts. Even though your job won't have any coding involved, you'll still need to understand these concepts. Being able to cover all these topics with clarity communicates confidence in your interviewer. Unfortunately, there's no formula for technical questions, but some general tips are: Use analogies when you can Break your solution into clear, bite-size steps Don't be afraid to use examples to b"See full answer