I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at DoorDash in Dec 2016
Interview
A recruiter reached out to me, and soon after we were able to schedule an onsite interview. I had an initial call with a hiring manager, and from there went straight to onsite interviews. The onsite interviews were pretty standard. For the coding interviews, you are asked to bring in your own laptop. There is also an "open-source debugging" interview round that does not seem too mature yet - the interviewer ended up just giving me a whiteboard question instead. Overall, I had 3 coding rounds, 1 architecture round, and 1 round with a hiring manager. The coding questions were of average difficulty. Nothing too hard.
The recruiter ended up telling me that they went with a more senior person for the role. Since I never applied online (recruiter directly reached out to me), this was very confusing. If they wanted someone more senior, they should have told me that before I interviewed. If I just didn't pass the interviews, then they should have told me that directly and honestly.
Walking into the coding interview, I was taken aback when they asked about finding the K nearest restaurants based on coordinates. Just days before, I had stumbled on a mock on prachub.com that mirrored this question almost exactly. The interview felt straightforward, but I struggled with some behavioral questions. Overall, the experience was underwhelming; I expected more technical depth. After several rounds, they decided to go in another direction, which was disappointing given my prep efforts.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of restaurants with their coordinates and a user's location, find the K nearest restaurants
it was very easy, they ask basic programming questions, can be solved with minimal prep, however they ask a lot about why u want to work here, be prepared to talk for a long time
1) Coding Challenge
2) Technical coding round
3) Behaviour/ hiring manager round
DSA questions asked in first 2 rounds, leetcode medium to hard. Overall process was quick, got replies within a few weeks.
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