At Wayfair, students get the chance to explore their potential outside of the classroom and take the lead on distinct high-impact projects. Whether you want to gain new skills or build upon existing talents, we’ll give you the support, experience, and freedom you need to build an exciting career.
Why start your career at Wayfair?
Development Opportunities
We offer students a chance to learn new skills and build upon existing ones, whether it’s through technological training or a course on communication and negotiation.
Autonomy
From day one, you’ll take the lead on distinct high-impact projects and drive results. Wayfair believes in giving all employees autonomy in order to innovate, build, and fix quickly.
Mentorship
What better way to grow than by working side by side with people of all backgrounds and experience levels? At Wayfair, we make it easy for you to get to know your coworkers, and we’ll provide you with as many formal and informal mentoring opportunities as possible.
Find Your Next Opportunity
Our 10-week summer internship program is designed to give you a feel of what it would be like to work at Wayfair as a full-time employee. You’ll be assigned real projects, work with your team, and contribute directly to your team’s goals and objectives. Rising juniors and seniors eligible.
Our six-month (flexible start dates) co-op program is designed to give you real work experience, aligning you to strategic projects. Sophomores to master’s students eligible, but not accepting MBA candidates.
As a full-time employee, you’ll be challenged to solve complex problems and develop solutions to company-wide initiatives. We are looking for analysts and associates who are passionate about technology and e-commerce. Rolling start dates available (majority in summer).
Whether through data-driven product design, our modern end-to-end tech stack, or building world-class experiences and relationships for our customers, partners, and employees – Wayfair is changing the future of home.
No matter what role or tenure, interviews consist of behavioral questions and scenario-based questions. Behavioral questions are specifically designed questions inspired by the core competencies against which all Wayfair employees are assessed: team building & culture, innovation & results, critical thinking, and communication & persuasion. Scenario-based questions are questions used to assess how candidates might operate in a real-world setting. Here are some tips to help you prepare!
What’s New
One of our missions at Wayfair is to help our 22 million customers find the products they are looking for. For example, when a customer searches for a “modern yellow sofa” on Wayfair, we want to show the most relevant options from the tens of thousands of sofas available in our catalog. To do that, it is important to have a strong understanding of the products we sell. We use machine learning algorithms to analyze and understand the descriptive information (e.g. color, shape) of over 40 million products provided by more than 20 thousand suppliers in our catalog.
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How Wayfair leverages Graph Neural Networks to thwart account-hopping fraudsters
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Continuing its investment in renewable energy generation, Wayfair — along with a consortium of companies including EMD Electronics, Biogen Inc., Autodesk Inc., and a large healthcare company — entered into a large aggregated virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with Recurrent Energy, a subsidiary of Canadian Solar, Inc., for 100% of the production capacity of their solar project Liberty Solar. As part of this agreement, Wayfair is contracted to offtake 15MW of power, which we expect to represent over 64% of our energy consumption in North America in 2022.
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Last week I participated on a panel at the Milken Institute Global Conference. It was a fantastic event featuring more than 200 sessions, including mine, “Retail Renaissance: Businesses Embracing Technology, Sustainability, and Innovation.”
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In early April, Wayfair introduced the Digital Design Studio in our AllModern Dedham store. The Digital Design Studio (DDS) is a photorealistic interactive experience that lets customers explore Wayfair’s endless catalog by designing 3D furniture arrangements with product cards. Creating this tool was a collaborative effort between Wayfair Next (our R&D group tasked with exploring various emerging tech use cases), Physical Retail, Visual Merchandising, Creative, 3D, and many other Wayfair teams.
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Geo experimentation unlocks incrementality testing when customer-level experimentation is not possible.
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How to make deliveries faster without touching any packages
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Let’s look at how we at Wayfair use custom embedding models to capture complex customer behavior patterns for advanced Fraud prevention.
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Search relevance – the relationship between users’ queries and the products returned in search results – is one of the most important performance indicators for ecommerce storefronts. However, the sheer volume of the data makes evaluating and improving search relevance a difficult proposition. To give just one example, the Wayfair catalog has millions of products, which makes it difficult to create relevance-focused evaluation datasets manually.
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Dive into the ways Wayfair’s data scientists are using Vertex AI to improve model productionization, serving, and operational readiness velocity.
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