Fast. Typical. But ultimately a waste of time. Again the redundancy in the interview questions have specific rehearsed answers that everyone tells. To deny a perfectly qualified candidate that has provided the “answer” you all are looking for is clearly based on a personal bias, racially (un)motivated perhaps. The furniture is cheap anyway.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you went over and beyond for a customer?
I applied online. I interviewed at Wayfair (Boston, MA) in Feb 2022
Interview
1) Phone screen with recruiter
2) Karat interview. It was some rapid fire system design questions as well as a coding round. If you get one right, they iterate a bit.
3) Final onsite was four rounds. Behavioral, Coding, Application Design (OOD and DB design), and System Design.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Something like: design an application to manage a shop that rents out stuff to customers
Design a large distributed system that provides some arbitrary service focusing on bottlenecks, tradeoffs, CAP, etc
Definitely know string manipulation and space/time complexity for coding. Know how to deliver good object oriented code and write tests in your language. Have a deep understanding of the language you choose or you won't finish. There are multiple questions.
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Wayfair in Jun 2021
Interview
45 min interview with hiring manager. He spoke for essentially all of the time, asking me very few questions. I had to prompt him several times to see if he wanted to ask me anything.