Instacart is growing really fast and it's exciting to be able to grow with it. There's a lot to do, and you can own things if you want to.
The team is fantastic on both a professional and personal level. I can't say enough about that. It's great to work with awesome people.
The engineering team owns a lot more of the product/project management than most companies I've worked at in the past. There's a lot more freedom to do what you think is right, but a lot more responsibility.
Instacart is constantly pushing the boundaries on what we can do and how fast we can move. I feel like I've put out some of the best work of my life here because of the environment.
We're growing so fast, staying up to date can be tough. You should be comfortable making decisions yourself and be up for anything. This isn't the place for an engineer who wants to get a fully spec'd out feature and then just build it.
Keep calm and keep on keeping on.
Waste of time. In the Toronto office, you are going to be interviewed by a bunch of kids (who just graduated) and call themselves architects and senior engineers. Total waste of time, no modesty, and they think they are in the same league as FAANG.
A recruiter reached out. After a conversation, I decided to enter the engineering interview process. The phone interview includes an event-bus coding challenge. The next round is a coding challenge related to calculating analytics of user cohorts.
I was directly reached out to by a hiring manager via email and was asked to schedule a tech phone screen. The task was pretty simple, involving fixing an existing app by completing small, sequential tasks. It primarily involved changes to Views, Vie
Waste of time. In the Toronto office, you are going to be interviewed by a bunch of kids (who just graduated) and call themselves architects and senior engineers. Total waste of time, no modesty, and they think they are in the same league as FAANG.
A recruiter reached out. After a conversation, I decided to enter the engineering interview process. The phone interview includes an event-bus coding challenge. The next round is a coding challenge related to calculating analytics of user cohorts.
I was directly reached out to by a hiring manager via email and was asked to schedule a tech phone screen. The task was pretty simple, involving fixing an existing app by completing small, sequential tasks. It primarily involved changes to Views, Vie