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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience

June 1, 2021
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

After passing a pretty intense and long online coding screen, I attended the remote on-site. This consisted of two coding sessions, one system design, and one bar raiser interview.

Their standards seem quite high, comparable to Google or Facebook, as shown by the level of difficulty of the coding questions. One of them could be considered a "hard" problem by LeetCode standards.

Interviewers also don't offer much in the way of hints or help during the coding rounds.

The system design round sort of expected familiarity with their personal shopping process, which I didn't think was entirely fair.

Questions

Implement a string matching function with wildcards.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 20 interview experiences for the Instacart Senior Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

5%
Pass Rate

Instacart's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive35%
Neutral5%
Negative60%

Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Instacart's Senior Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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