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Two Coding Rounds, a Manager BQ Chat, and a System Design Round

InstacartSoftware Engineer · Onsite · Sep 2026

Two rounds of coding, and both were problems that had already been posted elsewhere before. The first one: the input is a transaction record and a set of discounts, and the discounts come in two types — one is a straight percentage off, the other is buy x get y free. The result you need to return is the best (lowest) price. There were 3 parts total, and I only got through the second part before t…

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