RejectedOnsite

Fast Coding and a Difficult Bar Raiser

InstacartSoftware Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · Sep 2026

The virtual onsite had two coding rounds, one design round, and one bar-raiser round. The coding questions were ones from interview reports, and easier than the versions on the forum. I breezed through both. For the calculate-expression question, the interviewer said in part two that there would always be spaces around the +, =, and - signs, so parsing was straightforward. In part three, the only…

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