RejectedOnsite

Hit With a Brand-New Question, Failed on BQ

InstacartSoftware Engineer · Onsite · Jun 2026

A totally new question I'd never seen before, and I was the one who got hit with it. I feel like every question in this loop had a pretty large amount of code, so everyone should practice a lot. I think I failed because of the new question and the BQ — I prepared for BQ the Amazon way, but in practice it felt more like a casual conversation, and I wasn't quite ready for that. Coding round: the cl…

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