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Grocery Pricing Coding, Inventory System Design, and a 20-Minute Behavioral

InstacartSoftware Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · Sep 2026

Two coding rounds, one system design round, and one behavioral round. Coding question 1 Given input strings in the format SKUid|SKUNAME|QUANTITY|Price, output the total quantity and the total price in dollars. The price in the input is in cents. Watch out for bad input. Besides the input above, there is also a discount input, in the formats SKUid|axf|20 and SKUid|bxf|5|2. The first format is a 20…

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