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      Business Analyst Interview

      Mar 8, 2021
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Instacart (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2021

      Interview

      Another standard high-growth tech company that abuses its interviewees because it can. Applicants pursuing the next shiny thing in tech, beware... A strategy manager reached out to me to apply. Interviewed with the recruiting manager (standard phone screen), was invited to do the take-home assignment (standard excel dataset & SQL assignment), and then it went downhill from there. The recruiter let me know he had "high functioning ADHD" and provided alternative ways to contact him if he didn't respond on email. After sending the take-home assignment, though, I never heard from him again: through email, LinkedIn and phone, I got dead silence. Finally a week after submitting the assignment I hit up the manager who originally reached out to me on LinkedIn, and he let me know he had never received my assignment from recruiting. Another week later I got a copy/paste rejection email with no feedback at all. I've done two of these assignments before for similar companies (think uber eats) and passed them both, so maybe I just got lucky those first two times, but I'm inclined to believe the recruiter dropped the ball and they had already offered the position to someone else by the time they finally reviewed my assignment. So, as I should've known, complete waste of 10-12 hours of my life (~6-8 for excel, ~4 for SQL). Be warned.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      A new grocer is having trouble, please figure out what the problem/s are and what we can do to improve
      Answer question
      4

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      Anonymous employee
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      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Instacart in Nov 2021

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      Dec 11, 2021
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Boston, MA
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      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Instacart (Boston, MA) in Oct 2021

      Interview

      The content of the interview(s) were interesting and engaging. However, I could not have had a more terrible recruitment experience. First of all, I had to reach out to my recruiter for updates at each of the interview. - Initial Phone call (2+ weeks for response) - Take home: SQL + Case (1.5+ weeks for response) - Super Day (3+ weeks) There was an utter lack of transparency. At each leg of the interview process, I asked when I should expect to hear feedback. Each time, my recruiter did not contact me when that deadline passed. I had to reach out in the following days to get a response. My recruiter also went on maternity leave halfway through my process. That's understandable, but she had told me (1) There would be no meetings the week of Thanksgiving so I had to wait to the Friday afterwards to get feedback. That was fine with me, but when I reached out on that date, I was told they needed more time and was told to wait another week. Finally, the day came where my recruiter promised me a response by EOD. Needless to say I didn't get a response and had to follow up yet again. Finally, the day after on Saturday afternoon, I received a run-of-the-mill template response saying that they appreciated my time, but proceeded with other candidates. After a 2.5 month interview process, I would appreciate feedback beyond boiler plate language. Yes I'm unhappy I didn't get the job. But I'm mostly irritated by the poor communication and what I felt like was a lack of respect for candidates throughout the process. Literally in the time it took me to hear back from the Superday, I completed the entire interview process (Recruiter screening, SQL assessment, take home case, hiring manager interview, superday) at another firm and received an offer. The worst recruitment experience I have had to date. Though I really enjoyed the casework and chatting with the team, this was completely overshadowed by the terrible recruiting experience. If this is any reflection on the company itself, then I'm glad I dodged a bullet. Absolutely not worth the time, effort, and exertion.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

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      Business Analyst Interview

      May 5, 2021
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Declined offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Instacart

      Interview

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      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      A debrief of the analytics exercise and SQL assessment
      1 Answer
      1