When you walk into a company like Wayfair, it can feel overwhelming. There are more than 2,300 engineers across the organization. Every person you talk to seems smarter than the last. Staff engineers are responsible for famous open source libraries and massive technical achievements. It can definitely be a scary…
Understanding price effects is of high importance to any business, but usually it’s not easy to measure. To do this, Wayfair’s algorithms team has been designing modeling and experimental approaches so that we can disentangle the intricate web of causality. In this video, Wayfair Senior Data Scientist Lin Jia explains……
Stylistic preference is an important factor when a home goods customer is deciding which product to buy, but it is very difficult to identify and define. Although designers have established different style categories, labeling a scene as adhering to a particular style is a highly subjective task. Furthermore, customers often……
Introduction When looking for a new piece of furniture to add to a room, customers generally consider two major points: the visual appearance of the new item, and its harmony with the existing furniture inside the room. Together, these two considerations define a customer’s style preferences. Wayfair’s vast product catalog……
This summer, 56 software engineering interns made a massive impact on Wayfair at our Boston headquarters. These talented engineering students, who represent 38 different universities across the country, came together for an incredibly successful 10-week internship. From learning a new tech stack, developing skills in stakeholder management, to attending events…
Wayfair sells over 10 million products on our website. This vast selection ensures that customers have numerous options when shopping for a particular item; but it also makes effective, personalized product recommendations of vital importance in helping our customers find products that are relevant to their interests. This week in……
Some of Wayfair’s most innovative ideas have been born out of our internal hackathon, WayfairHacks, which takes place every Summer at our Boston headquarters. This includes our mobile app feature View in Room 3D and Search with Photo, both of which have helped us win a Webby Award in 2018…
I love operations engineering, full stop. Focusing on this unique set of problems gets me out of bed every day and drives a high energy level. I have spent a significant amount of time in various aspects of operations engineering throughout my career, and have found this area of software…
Like many companies, Wayfair has leveraged Active Directory (AD) to centrally manage authentication as well as user and computer objects. Schema updates, Organization Unit structure changes, and Group Policy sprawl has led to a vast number of interdependencies and unnecessary complexity. Additionally, a large swath of our infrastructure is tied…
Experimentation plays a central role in understanding the business impact of data science strategies and solutions. A few weeks ago, Wayfair Data Science Manager Jerry Chen shared one way Wayfair has improved the experimentation process by building a unified test design and measurement platform (Gemini) for our marketing AB tests……
About a year ago I decided to change careers, somewhat. I was a full-stack engineer on Wayfair’s Room Planner project when I chose to try iOS development. Room Planner is a feature that lets users design their space by placing products in a virtual room. I joined the iOS side…
