Instacart·Software Engineer

Instacart Software Engineer interview experience

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For Instacart, my process hinged heavily on the online assessment and the scoring there was what determined how far I got.

On the OA, I scored 650 out of 750, and the final section was only partially passed. After that, I had onsite coding rounds where I kept my footing. In the first onsite coding round, I solved everything across 3 out of 3 sections, including an optimal approach with complexity explained clearly. In the second coding round, I again solved all test cases across 4 out of 4 sections.

I could explain the optimal solution and talk through complexities, but I remember mixing up the brute-force complexity in a way that cost me some correctness confidence. Still, I went into the onsite feeling like I

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