Instacart·Software Engineer

Instacart Software Engineer interview experience

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Posted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a senior SWE loop that started with a CodeSignal OA, where I scored 650 out of 750.

After that, there were two multi-section coding rounds, each with test cases and a style that felt like LeetCode-medium combined with a lot of data parsing, sorting, and filtering.

One of the rounds included a bar-raiser style discussion focused on projects, and then I moved into system design. I didn’t get feedback and was rejected, and looking back I felt like the design part likely didn’t land—there just wasn’t any positive signal to point to. The overall structure was consistent with an OA, then coding 1, coding 2, bar raiser, and system design, and that last piece is what seemed to

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