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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).
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Interviewed at Wayfair

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Dec 6, 2021

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).

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