4 x 45 min interviews back to back with various team members. One a role play, one a maths test, other two more competency based. Very intense and felt excessive.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Pretend I’m a potential supplier, how would you sell wayfair to me?
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Wayfair (Berlin)
Interview
Initial chat with HR person for fit (usual questions you could expect) 30m
Follow up with line manager (1hr - go over prior work experience, fit, personality questions, some technical stuff)
4 separate meetings - 2 co-workers, some suit in London and direct manager. 1hr each. Co-worker interviews are the same you get almost everywhere else (why us, tell me about yourself, tell me about a time....). The suit interview was more of the same and the final one was a case study.
Final "coffee chat" with some director. 30m+ Don't get fooled, this isn't a relaxed get to know you. Prepare to get grilled (role-play, deep dive even more than you already have the past 5 meetings, etc.)
It's all a bit overkill as you'll get asked the same questions over and over and over. Maybe that's the strategy but it's exhausting in a "omg, not again," kind of way. They want to see you "excited" about the role. So, if you really want it, be a cheerleader and yay hooray in your interviews or your motivations will be questioned over and over.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Every cookie cutter question was asked at least 3x over the course of 6 total interviews. Tell me about yourself, why wayfair, tell me a time you didn't agree with someone, tell me a time you had to make a deadline, etc.
Case Study - basic stuff if you've ever worked in performance marketing or used numbers to drive decisions. Basic year-to-year % increase, return on this or that, margins, seasonal shifts, explain why this might have happened, etc.
"Coffee chat" role-play - "I am a furniture company and you want to sell our stuff but I say no, what do you say" (and prepare for "no....no....no....." without any rationale from a business who would want to make money).
Process was well organised. It seamed all very professional until the interview. The woman who interviewed me was not prepared. She had no specific questions, did not know anything about me and did not even have my CV.
The process included Calls with HR for behavioral screen. Hr was super nice.
They put me up in hotel for the interview.
The interview included In person case interviews, with data and graphs in addition to behavioral
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Look at data and calculate metrics or explain trends