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I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Wayfair (Greater Noida) in Oct 2025
Interview
The online assessment was on hackerank platform , 2 DSA problems
I would say both were medium to hard.
1. Almost sorted -> You have been given an array and you need to tell the minimum number of elements on removing of which the array become almost sorted . Here almost sorted means the array becomes completely sorted on removing just one more element. wasnt able to even attempt even though I knew it was from binary search.
2 . I second question was table of contents -> detailed descriptiion and the exact same question :
https://studyx.ai/questions/4lqdtni/design-a-system-to-extract-a-table-of-contents-toc-from-a-document-written-in-a-simple?utm_source=chatgpt.com