Instacart·Software Engineer

Instacart Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Nov 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Recruiter outreach kicked things off, and then I ran into a very LeetCode-heavy filter.

After the recruiter call, I had a technical screen with four LeetCode questions that I needed to finish in 75 minutes. If I scored perfectly or near perfectly, I would move on to CTO interviews; otherwise, they’d pass.

The main thing that bothered me was the implication that doing amazingly on those problems might not translate to engineering fundamentals. I felt like the process could end up rewarding memorization or time spent grinding similar puzzles rather than broader software design judgment. I also noticed other reviews describing system design and live coding later, which made the

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