Engineering Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Instacart with 4.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 46.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Engineering Manager roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Instacart overall takes an average of 16 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Instacart as a Engineering Manager according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
One on one interview: 29%
Skills test: 14%
Presentation: 14%
IQ intelligence test: 14%
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Instacart (Toronto, ON) in Jun 2019
Interview
Got contacted by a recruiter, and after an initial call with the recruiter, I was scheduled with a senior manager. The interviewer was late, and I found him fairly arrogant, to say the least. He mentioned that they are looking for people with more years of experience, which is a fair point but when I checked their current team, even their VP looks not so experienced. Regardless, if this was really the concern, their recruiter gave a totally inconsistent message during our first call.
I got the vibe that the current team thinks that they got extra skills to reach where they are and other people won't be able to perform as they did.. lol!!
Anyway, I landed a better offer, but I would totally recommend avoiding the leadership position in Toronto with the current leadership in place.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Typical management question: How many people you hired, what's your management style, etc
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Instacart in Mar 2022
Interview
This is a while back at this point. Contacted by the recruiter. Phone screen with hiring manager, 2 behavioral, 1 coding using their system, 1 system design. Process took about a month overall. I got an offer but didn't accept due to a competing offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system used by the team. Coding was a medium with two parts. Their system was pretty nice and actually had unit tests
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Instacart (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2021
Interview
Worst experience I've ever had.
Talked to internal recruiter about the role, seemed like a good fit. Got set up to talk to the director.
When we got on the Zoom, it was clear this guy did NOT want to talk to me AT ALL. And that was before I got chance to say ANYTHING! It's pretty clear when you can tell when someone is trying Not to have a conversation with you.
He talked about the reasons for the role and group structure. I gave my song and dance about myself, with NO followup or conversation about anything I said. He ended the interiew early. This guy clearly had some attitude that he brought into the meeting with him.
The role is still open 3 months later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you pln moving from a monolithic codebase to a micro service?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Instacart (Toronto, ON) in Jun 2021
Interview
Phone Interviews with various directors to determine interest / fit. Conversations were initially about the role / Instacart. When I ran out of questions, it pivoted to questions on my management style, etc. I mistakenly believed these conversations were part of the pre-interview process, so was somewhat surprised to get a rejection after just these conversations. I guess be prepared to answer any sort of question at any phase of the interview process here.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you describe your management philosophy?