Instacart·Software Engineer

Instacart Software Engineer interview experience

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After my onsite with Instacart, I was left waiting longer than I expected.

I remember the recruiter taking about a week to get back, and when I didn’t hear anything right away, the silence started to feel tense. Eventually, I reached out by email and noticed the recruiter stopped replying even though I hadn’t received an official reject.

At the same time, there were also moments that sounded encouraging—at one point, I got positive feedback from the recruiter, which made the lack of follow-through harder to interpret. The gap between “things look good” and “no response” stretched out into something I couldn’t resolve.

In the end, I didn’t feel confident about

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