Technical Screen

Product Sense, Experiment Design, and SQL in 45 Minutes

InstacartData Scientist · Technical Screen · Feb 2026

Overall the experience was good. The interviewer was very nice and the conversation flowed smoothly. In 45 minutes we covered product sense, experiment design, experiment analysis, and SQL. Question 1 How to investigate a metric decline. Pretty standard question. Seasonality, product changes, user segments, external competition — anything reasonable works. Question 2 If you were launching a new p…

Shared by a candidate · reported Feb 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.