Instacart — Core Delivery — Product Case Questions

Role context: Data Scientist, Core Delivery · Est. study time: 45 min · 4 questions

How these map to the role

These are Core Delivery's real cases: an ambiguous delivery-experience question you frame into a marketplace-aware, causal answer for leadership. The recurring instinct: it's a coupled three-sided marketplace — reason across customers, shoppers, and retailers, respect interference and geography, and surface cross-side trade-offs.

Each answer is a coaching walkthrough: a Sample answer (clarify → approach → simulated back-and-forth → clear call), then a Deep dive with illustrative example, then a Grading rubric.