Mission: At Instacart we aim to give our customers back their invaluable time so they can spend it doing the things they love with the people they love. Every minute counts.
Talk about your past experiences.
How might you have optimized parameters for this model differently?
How would you tune a random forest?
How would you staff the team based on delivery data?
How would you do power analysis for an A/B test?
When an item isn t available, what algorithm should we use to replace it?
What other products or revenue opportunities will arise from Instacart s data?
Write a script to format data in a text file.
Estimate the demand and supply in a given situation.
Given an OLTP system, which tracks the sales of items with order processing, returns and shipping, create a data warehouse model to find gross sales, net sales, and gross sales by product.
Given a movie database, identify whether a movie has a well defined genre.
How should we solve our supply / demand problems at Instacart?
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Stage 2: At-home code/data challenge
Stage 3: Technical phone interview
Stage 4: Onsite interview
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