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Using Deep Learning to Pick Groceries Faster(medium.com)
35 points by apoorvamehta 10y ago|1 comments
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by apoorvamehta 10y ago
hey - this is apoorva from instacart s12. we'd not have been in YC had it not been for Garry Tan! full story here: https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/18/how-instacart-hacked-yc/ really happy to see this
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Engineer / Data Science / PM Roles at Instacart(instacart.com)
1 points by apoorvamehta 10y ago
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Data Science Challenges at Instacart(tech.instacart.com)
93 points by apoorvamehta 11y ago|61 comments
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YC Interview Prep Tool(ycinterview.com)
103 points by apoorvamehta 11y ago|14 comments
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by apoorvamehta 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback. We are working on those issues. And, trust me, that is our dream as well :)
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by apoorvamehta 12y ago
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 :)
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by apoorvamehta 13y ago
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
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by apoorvamehta 13y ago
Instacart switched to Zesty for dinner and super happy so far. The restaurant choices are great.
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by apoorvamehta 13y ago
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
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by apoorvamehta 13y ago
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 n
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by apoorvamehta 13y ago
One day for a several year investment seems pretty logical to us.
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by apoorvamehta 13y ago
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
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One Hour Hire - Hacking Engineer Interviews(rocketship.instacart.com)
42 points by apoorvamehta 13y ago|75 comments
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Join a Rocket Ship. Instacart is hiring our First Android Engineer
1 points by apoorvamehta 13y ago
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by apoorvamehta 13y ago
yes, we do have people on the ground in Chicago. And, we are looking for more ops focused people to join. Please email us at jobs@instacart.com - Thank you.
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Instacart Expands To Chicago(techcrunch.com)
64 points by apoorvamehta 13y ago|32 comments
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Build the next Amazon. Instacart is looking for senior iOS and Android devs
1 points by apoorvamehta 13y ago
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Join a Rocket Ship. Instacart is hiring Senior iOS and Android Engineers
1 points by apoorvamehta 13y ago
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Instacart launches Express – Amazon Prime for Groceries(techcrunch.com)
43 points by apoorvamehta 13y ago|17 comments
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by apoorvamehta 13y ago
Interesting. I'll have to look into PostgreSQL's full text search. Does it support token filters similar to Elasticsearch?
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Instacart launches Searchkick - Bootstrap for Search(rocketship.instacart.com)
94 points by apoorvamehta 13y ago|22 comments
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Join a Rocket Ship. Instacart is hiring Senior Full Stack Rails Engineers
1 points by apoorvamehta 13y ago
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Instacart: Crowdsourcing Your Grocery Shopping(businessweek.com)
89 points by apoorvamehta 13y ago|48 comments
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by apoorvamehta 13y ago
garry - fwiw - the whole team cracked up when they saw the comment.
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by apoorvamehta 13y ago
LA is coming soon. And, we do have a web app in addition to the iPhone & iPad.
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by apoorvamehta 13y ago
Could you please email cs@instacart.com with specifically what you mean (ideally, screenshots). We try to be very explicit about that but maybe we missed something. Thank you.
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by apoorvamehta 13y ago
Agreed. Working on it.
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Instacart expands its grocery delivery service to Oakland and Berkeley(thenextweb.com)
53 points by apoorvamehta 13y ago|23 comments
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by apoorvamehta 13y ago
Thanks! Would love to hear your feedback: happycustomers@instacart.com

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