Instacart·Software Engineer

Instacart Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My recruiter call was followed by a very compressed coding gauntlet.

After that initial touchpoint, I had four Leetcode-style questions to solve in 75 minutes. The screening logic felt binary: if you scored perfectly or near perfectly, then the CTO would interview you; otherwise, you wouldn’t move forward.

I also walked into the process feeling skeptical about how the interviews were run. The way one round was conducted by someone outside the company didn’t match what I expected from an Instacart engineering interview—this interviewer seemed unfamiliar with the company context and mainly asked questions while recording answers, without really understanding

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