apoorvamehta

Thanks for the feedback. We are working on those issues.

And, trust me, that is our dream as well :)

Hey! This is apoorva from Instacart. Our prices for most stores are the same as the store and we are working on getting other stores to have the same prices as well. Stay tuned :)

nice work. one of the biggest problems with external tracking services (mixpanel/kissmetrics/google analytics) is reconciling the data with what's present in your database. this solves that problem really well. great start

Instacart switched to Zesty for dinner and super happy so far. The restaurant choices are great.

You are right - 8 hours of uninterrupted time is excessive. And, our approach specifically does not ask for that.

If you see the constraints defined in the post - the goal is to have the interview be remote so that the candidate can do this wherever and whenever they want. And, the tests are specifically designed to be not longer than 4 hours long each. Perhaps what wasn't clear is that this is not in a single session.

Interviews can go for as long as a week - really depends on the candidate's schedule.

Our process 'weeds out' candidates as soon as we know that its not a good fit. This in reality saves the candidate ( who may be interviewing at other places as well as working like you mentioned ) as well as our time. The 7 hour number keeps coming up, and seems like a lot, but very few candidates actually spend that much time. And, most of those are actually hired.

We've tried conversations as well, but unfortunately, it is very difficult to objectively measure them into what will make the candidate successful at the company (interested to learn how you do it).

One day for a several year investment seems pretty logical to us.

Fully agreed. We look at code cleanliness as part of the review. And, the algorithmic questions are not problems that you'd normally find online. They are custom problem that we've had to solve at Instacart