Instacart·Product Manager

Instacart Product Manager interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Sep 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

It started like a standard screening: a phone call with the recruiter, then a call with the hiring manager.

After that, I was asked to complete a take-home exercise that required real documents and deliverables from a previous project.

What made the experience feel off was the suspicion that the take-home was being used more like a way to extract competitive intel rather than a fair assessment. That made the whole step feel risky, especially since I couldn’t understand why they needed materials tied to prior work.

The process didn’t end in an offer, and what I remember most was the discomfort of being asked for tangible, real-world artifacts rather than something that stayed abstract and

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