Instacart·Software Engineer

Instacart Software Engineer interview experience

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Toronto, ONPosted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My loop started with two 60-minute coding sessions, then I took an hour break before moving into a 45-minute behavioral interview.

After that, I had an easier system design round that lasted 60 minutes. The questions felt fairly straightforward, and the second coding round leaned into data structures while the first was more about parsing through dictionaries.

I did really well overall, but I couldn’t finish the second part of the second coding round. The behavioral interviewer’s delivery felt flat and it kind of killed the momentum for me. Still, I walked away thinking I should have been competitive, but I wasn’t offered the role, and seeing similar stories elsewhere made it feel like my time may not have been worth it.

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