Instacart Software Engineer interview experience

After that, I joined a long remote session that ran for about four hours total, with everything packed into one day and just a small break in between.

Inside the remote block, I did two hours of coding, one hour of behavioral, and one hour focused on design. The schedule was intense, but the structure was clear, and once it was over I felt like I had gotten through what they asked for—even though the result was still a rejection.