Wayfair Frontend SDE-2 Interview Experience - March 2025

I applied to Wayfair SDE-2 Frontend role on March and will share the whole process of my interview journey.

Hackerrank Online coding test

After applying I received a online coding test link from hackerrank. There was two questions one was regarding to React and one plain javascript. I forgot the questions. but it was easy and medium leveled. I think the javascript side question was to create something like a Observer pattern or some EventEmitter kind of question.

Technical Round - 1 : Machine Coding

So after the online test, 15 days later I got a call from the recruiter and scheduled the machine coding interview round. The interviewer was a senior manager and I was given a hackerrank link. There was a full react application.

• Task 1 there were some reviews and there was a select filter. in the select filter there was differenct kind of filters, based on user selection the reviews will get filtered.
• Task 2 debugging and fixing a performance issue for editing one review.

The interview went good and the interviewer was also very helpful.

Technical Round - 2 : System Design

On the system design round, I was given a link where I saw a ecommerce product details page and asked to give a high level architecture of that page.

In this round, I had to discuss requirments, rendering approach, architecture, data flow and also data schema (for example how the interface of the product will look like), follow up questions and also Optimizations.

This round went good also but I think I could have done it more better. On the Product component which could have make it more scalable and also on the optimizations part. The interviewer was very good, I enjoyed this conversation. Also he asked a question which basically tests your leadership for a project on which I was a little bit confused.

Hiring Manager Round

The recruiter called me after the system design round and asked me to come to the Wayfair office and give two back to back interviews for Hiring Manager and HR Round.

For the hiring manager, The interviewer asked me many situational based question which I answered based on STAR Pattern. on the end of the interview he asked about what methodology we follow and I dont know what happened to me, I was blank 😭😭 and fumbled.

It was a decent interview, but I understood he was not satisfied 🥲.

HR Round

After the hiring manager, the hr came and ask general hr questions like why are you looking out, why Wayfair, notice period, compensation.

Verdict - Rejected!

After 1 week the hr called me and told me that they are not moving forward with me 🥲. Only the online test is elimination round. The hr said until a round was that bad, they will not reject in the middle. A canidate have to go through all the rounds and process then they will declare the result.

I hope it helps. Thanks. (P.S - The hiring manager also asked why are you looking out?)