Case Study: Wayfair reclaims 24,000+ engineering hours and boosts hiring yield with Karat’s Interviewing Cloud

How Wayfair improved hiring efficiency with Karat’s Interviewing Cloud

Wayfair was up‑leveling its engineering organization and building new product infrastructure, but lacked the interviewing capacity and consistent, predictive assessment needed to hire higher‑level engineers without pulling product teams off their work. To solve this, Wayfair engaged Karat and adopted Karat’s Interviewing Cloud to scale technical interviewing and improve hiring predictiveness.

Karat conducted technical interviews on Wayfair’s behalf, calibrated assessments through Alignment Engineering, and provided analytics, 24/7 scheduling, and Redo interviews. The partnership delivered 12,000+ interviews, reclaimed 24,000+ engineering hours, and resulted in 284 total hires (86 from Redos), a 23% YoY improvement in onsite‑to‑offer ratio, and a 19% improvement in technical interview pass‑through rate, with Karat’s insights helping Wayfair optimize sourcing and hiring decisions.

Wayfair

Jonathan Kehoe

Head of Technical Recruiting