Instacart

The take-home runs before any live interview, so a candidate puts product work in to earn an interview slot. Combined with a roughly two-week application window in March and an early-August program start, the cycle is compressed and front-loaded: candidates are working the product challenge in parallel with whatever else they have running through spring recruiting.

The program is remote-first across the US and Canada, with optional hybrid on-site work for those near the San Francisco, New York City or Toronto offices. For functions outside product – engineering, data science, marketing – Instacart's careers site lists individual openings rather than a named cohort program, so a non-product applicant is evaluating standard postings rather than a structured rotational track.

The rotational structure is paired with a remote-first US / Canada footprint, so geography is not a gate the way it is at PM programs anchored to a single hub. For a candidate weighing APM offers, the specific combination here is a marketplace with consumer, retailer-facing and ads surfaces under one cohort program, run remotely; it sits in a different shape than single-product or hub-anchored APM tracks at adjacent firms.