Instacart Excel take home & SQL test —
Hi all, anyone have insights on the Instacart Strategy & Bizops 2nd round interview that includes a take home excel project as well as a timed SQL test? The latter is a typical 3rd party administered timed thing I believe, but I’ve seen mixed stuff on the take home excel. How difficult/time intensive is it and did they give you any helpful feedback? Cheers!

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Wow they gave you a Excel take home test for delivering groceries? Amazing

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Delivering groceries is arguably more meaningful than the majority of consulting projects I’ve encountered lol

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DM me and I can send you the feedback they gave me. It was like 2 sentences but not worth the 8+ hrs I spent on the thing over the weekend, I am a perfectionist so aside from the excel I worked on the PPT like 2 hrs to get it right.

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Hi, could you please share more details about the take home test? I tried DMing you but it wouldn’t let me

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How did it go? Any tips you can share? I'm going through the interview process now

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I got dropped the round after data challenge, dm and I can give more details

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Hi, could you please share details on this? Going through the process now :)

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