RejectedOnline Assessment

A 5-Part OA That Was Basically Vibe-Coding With Claude

InstacartBackend Engineer · Senior+ · Online Assessment · May 2026

I've compiled some tips I saw online and added my own experience. The deadline was two weeks. What surprised me was that this OA was completely different from the Instacart OAs I had seen discussed before. It was a 5-part assessment, and the overall format felt more like "AI-assisted full-stack feature implementation" than a traditional coding assessment. Time limit was 90 minutes. The assessment…

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