I was contacted by a recruiter who talked my ear off about how great the company is, and spent more time describing her own career than asking questions about mine. The follow-up came via email, with an itinerary detailing whom I was to meet with and when, as well as directions to the building. The itinerary stated that I was to sign in at the building's front desk , where they would tell me which elevator to take. Then I was to call the recruiter from the lobby phone once reaching my floor. To her credit, she was very accommodating, offering coffee or water. I was shown around the different floors controlled by Wayfair, being eyeballed suspiciously by those who cared enough to glance up. I was shown a room literally overflowing with boxes that nobody had any idea how to handle, and was asked how I would go about "tightening it up." When the interview began in earnest, I was seated in a small, chilly conference room; there was not enough room between the brick wall and the table to comfortably maneuver my chair. I met with two members of the team who asked the standard questions, i.e. What interested you in Wayfair, Why do you enjoy this type of work, etc. While they were friendly enough, they were ill-prepared for the interview. The third person I met with was the supervisor to the first grow. She was equally friendly, and had me believing the interview was going quite well. At one point, she texted someone to ask if they were available to come meet with me. While trying to answer a question, the woman who received the message came barging into the room unannounced. The interview was effectively over at this point. The other woman excused herself, and this new person -- with whom I was not scheduled to meet -- took a line of questioning with me that did not at all pertain to the job description I was given. She was cold, did not uncross her arms the entire time we were in the room together, and gave me the impression that I was somehow being blamed for her being pulled out of a meeting to meet with a candidate on short notice. In the end, I decided that it was some sort of tactic; I let my guard down with the first three rounds of interviews and was blindsided by this woman whose personally was a complete 180 from the others'. When I contacted the recruiter to follow up, I was told that somebody had been hired for a more senior position in the department (likely the one mentioned in Most Difficult or Unexpected Question below), and negotiated a higher starting salary. For that reason, they could not afford my requested salary, and so they offered the position to another candidate, at a lower rate. Wayfair is notorious on Glassdor as a company that will not negotiate on salary; their offers are take-it-or-leave it. A lot of things do not add up regarding my experience interviewing with this company. I do not know the true reason they did not extend an offer, but I am confident it is not the same as the reason I was given.