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.
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Find Your Next Opportunity
Our Early Leaders program is an opportunity for second-year students from underrepresented backgrounds to join us for a week-long, immersive experience. You’ll gain exposure to core functional areas of our business, while honing your communication, analytical and leadership skills.
Our six-month, full time co-op program is designed to give you real world experience, aligning you to strategic projects. Start dates are available in January and July each year. Undergraduate, graduate and PhD students are eligible.
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.
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.
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