Instacart Interview Questions

Tim W. - "Clarify "What do you mean by favorite product? Are you thinking specifically hardware, software, or a feature within those, or something non-electronic? Dealer's Choice. "Are you asking why I love this product, or to explain why this product is a market leader independent of how i feel about it? Talk about why YOU love this product. Rephrase Question With all that in mind, i want to rephrase the question. "What is your favorite software product and what features in this product"See full answer

P K. - "Clarifying/Assumptions: Assuming improvement refers to lift in engagement in this case. Youtube refers to the WWW and mobile platforms. Key User Segments: Creators Influencers/Celebrities Video bloggers Regular users Viewers Power watchers Casual watchers Churned watchers Selecting the Influencer segment from the above list since it is a smaller volume of users and will have a big impact on viewers. Also, it is easier to understand"See full answer

Dr. chantel P. - "Currently, I work in banking fraud detection. Recently, my teammate and myself were asked to assist the Check Deposits team in enhancing their fraud detection ML solution by evaluating new data sources and eliminating past data sources for possible lift. We retrieved data from Hadoop and Netezza databases including deposit transaction data, mobile & computer device, authentication logs, account balance, and customer demographic data. We then created new and recreated old features including tem"See full answer

Dan H. - "Assumptions Instacart for Business is core Instacart with additional features and capabilities tailored to businesses. Users Potential user segments: Office managers (Focus here) Entrepreneurs/small business owners Restauranteurs Opportunities (pain points, needs, problems) Many places don’t offer same-day shipping. Inconvenient to physically go out and purchase these items from a store if urgent Hard to predict an"See full answer

Parag - "Clarify Retention for which side of the platform - advertisers, groceries/shops, shoppers, users? - Assume Is there any specific event or trend driving retention down or we’re looking in general to overall improve from current state? - Assume Is this tied to any particular geography or region? - Assume Is this tied to any specific persona within our 4 sided platform? - Assume Are we changing the definition of retention (time, frequency, others)? - Assume no Goal - Improve the use"See full answer

Dolores - "Clarify question: Google flight search: flights.google.com (app or website) Allows users to search for flights, sort, or filter To book, you are directed to airline or aggregator sites Vision of the product: Help users find and compare flights they want to take Users: Flyers (primary user) Airlines and aggregator sites (prices, avail, options) Flight inventory providers Success metrics: Number of users/flyers like DAUs or MAUs % flyers (DAUs or MAUs) which are repeat Success"See full answer

Pree M. - "What is shopper demand? Let's say the ability to predict whether x number of shoppers are available during a certain time of day based on a some factors Variables: \# number of orders /per hour /per day /per week Shopping Time: time taken for a shopper to prep an order (how many orders can a shopper prep) $ average order value geographic factors since demand will vary by city number of stores or any other multiplying factor which help us predict order volume (which is dire"See full answer

realkimchi - "Objective: Proposal for expanding the service offerings for small restaurants and local cafes. The objective is to enhance the Instacart Business platform by integrating local vendors (Speciality Food & Beverage Business Units) to increase product selection and improve supply chain efficiencies for business customers. Market Focus: The target market includes food service establishments characterized by their need for distinct, locally sourced ingredients and their struggles wi"See full answer

Nishant K. - "This is the reason we PMs get bad name,lol! People are so busy in parroting the framework and answers that they don't even bother to read the question :D "See full answer

Adegnika O. - "It was a Finetech product to help people remove credit card limited balance issue. The product is design especially for business man who usually use they credit card to make purchase or big transaction. Problem Credit card have a limit amont of money they can support. it is very difficult to handle situation where people want to make a transaction that goes beyond their supported credit card balance. Having many credit card is not easy to manage and go to trip with a huge amont of money i"See full answer

Lee J. - "don't you need something like the below in the select clause SUM(rides) AS total_rides SUM(deliveries) AS total_deliveries "See full answer

Oded W. - "Pango Bit waze"See full answer