Our Engineering department at Wayfair spans two countries and more than 2,300 people. Discovering the interesting paths some of them have taken into tech can seem daunting given the numbers, so our Talent team chose to start local and host an exciting event for Boston students. “How She Got There”,…
Introduction If you are a Wayfair customer looking for some wall art to decorate your house, chances are you will land on our wall art SuperBrowse page (see image below or link here). This page shows a grid of 48 products, all of which are pieces of wall art. Those……
Wayfair has a strong emphasis on causal inference when evaluating the impact of business strategies. The assumptions of experimentation and regression are critical to know your models are capturing true effects and not confounding variables. In this video, Wayfair data scientist Dan VanLunen outlines some of these key assumptions along……
An introduction by way of some marketing prose. Cutting edge intelligent systems. Big data at scale. World class ad tech to drive phenomenal growth in a multi-billion dollar business. Real-time tracking and personalization to engage millions of shoppers daily: Ad Tech & Customer Intelligence Engineering @ Wayfair. Meet the two…
At the recent InfluxDays NYC 2019, Senior Engineer Richard Laskey shared some of our monitoring best practices using InfluxEnterprise. These efforts are critical and help improve the user experience on Wayfair by driving forward site-wide improvements, establishing best practices, and pushing positive change through many different teams. From our experience…
This week in Wayfair Data Science’s explainer series, Senior Machine Learning Engineer Tim Zhang lays out what you need to know about training image synthesis. Training image synthesis is a fairly young project for the Computer Vision team at Wayfair. We have explored a few different use cases that can……
In January 2019, Wayfair Data Science was thrilled to host our third immersion program for graduate students in quantitative fields. Our largest round yet, this program brought 25 PhD candidates from 12 different universities to spend a week with the data science team at Wayfair’s headquarters in Boston. Longer than……
Becoming a software engineer isn’t always straightforward or the same for each person; careers in the industry can start at any point in your working life, backed by a variety of studied disciplines or work experience. We know that good software engineers don’t always take the traditional path into development,…
In this installment, Archi Mitra (Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Computer Vision team) lays out an intro to Human-in-the-loop systems, which are used in every Computer Vision project here at Wayfair. Our Visual Search, Object Detection, Room & Style algorithm leverages this system to annotate training data and validate……
This week, Zephy McKanna sets out to explain Multi-Armed bandits. Here at Wayfair, we are constantly testing new algorithms, product sort orders, marketing, and other messages using epsilon-first Multi-Armed Bandits – also known as A/B tests. We are also employing some more interesting MAB algorithms, like Thompson Sampling, to dynamically……
In this series, the Global Mobility team in our European HQ speaks to employees about their journey to Wayfair, and what moving overseas entailed for them. We begin with Bernie Miles, who joined Wayfair as Head of Engineering to strengthen technology and innovation for our Berlin-based software teams. He brings…
