Instacart Data Scientist Interview Experiences

“I just found like nervousness dropped my IQ like 20 points, so I ended up doing a lot of mocks with GPT. Then I started seeing way more causal inference in interviews, like the field can go back to the science part.”

“One thing that stood out was the SQL round. They gave me this AI-generated, very modular code and asked me to read the logic like a human, then basically debug what the machine was doing wrong.”