Instacart·Data Scientist

Instacart Data Scientist interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process felt pretty light on the technical side compared to how long it took me to get through it.

After an initial recruiter-style step, I ended up doing a live, 1.5-hour case study where I used Python (or whichever tool I chose) to solve the main technical task. The challenge was the bulk of the time, and the rest felt like filler: I also had to give a presentation and handle Q&A afterward with people framed as stakeholders.

Separately, I had a shorter recruiter-to-tech-screen path where the first real bar was SQL for about 45 minutes. I got through the coding portion, but the feedback was that it wasn’t quite up to what the team wanted—especially around experimentation experience and

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