Instacart·Data Scientist

Instacart Data Scientist interview experience

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Posted May 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process was built like a timed sequence that hit both product thinking and technical depth.

First came a 30-minute recruiter screening, and then I moved into a one-hour tech screen centered on SQL plus product sense. That was followed by a remote onsite that lasted about three hours, where I had to present a Python take-home. The onsite also included statistics and experimentation alongside product sense, so it wasn’t just model-building—it was connecting analysis back to product impact.

The final part was a behavioral and technical deep dive into my background. What stood out to me was how much they tried to cover end-to-end: the technical artifacts from the take-home, the

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