Instacart Software Engineer interview experience

I also expected a frontend systems design component later.

In practice, it stretched out for more than two months and became exhausting. The recruiter was kind and communicative throughout, and after the recruiter call I did four hours of onsite interviews across two days, which felt positive. A week later, they asked to add another frontend systems design interview because they hadn’t given me a relevant challenge. I reluctantly agreed to the seventh interview, and then scheduling turned into a mess: it was canceled multiple times due to staff availability and training issues, and once they