I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Instacart in Mar 2026
Interview
45 minute technical interview on statistics and SQL coding around instacart problems. SQL coding was not really coding, rather finding errors on SQL queries. I suppose companies are updating their interview processes after the fact that most of the people will not be really coding as LLM code so well, and instead, should be skilled at detecting bad LLM outputs.
The interviewer was kind of nonchalant from the get-go, and did not try to set a nice vibe.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Instacart revenue has dropped this month, how can we go about understanding it or the reasons behind it.