I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at DoorDash (Toronto, ON) in Jun 2022
Interview
After a brief initial phone interview, a second round was scheduled over the video call. It consisted of an 1 hour technical and 45 minutes team building assessments.
For the 1st part the expectation was to share your screen and design a system.
For the 2d one there were 6 or 7 questions, with a format of "give me an example", or a "describe a time when".
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The technical part was not hard, especially if you took time to prepare for the system design questions. It seemed I was expected to give a pretty comprehensive and correct answer right away, but not re-iterate on things. For instance I was corrected on a simple SQL query right after I finished writing it and at the same time walking the interviewer over it. These corrections were obvious to me, but I didn't even get to the final answer yet. So, maybe from the interviewer perspective I wasn't fast enough.
As for the 2d part, it was a blast of questions with basically 5 mins per answer or so. I didn't really have a good understanding on what to expect and didn't prepare good answers, so it was hard to give concise but comprehensive replies.
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I applied through other source. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at DoorDash in Jan 2026
Interview
First it was recruiter screen over phone followed by round 1 which had 2 interviews. First it was 60 min system design followed by 45 min team hiring/management interview. It seemed straightforward process.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at DoorDash (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2024
Interview
Had two interviews back-to-back. One was a system design interview and another was about leadership/hiring. In the system designs interview, the software engineer interviewing me was very rude and I could tell that I was not going to pass within the first 10 minutes. I started designing a system but he kept interrupting me and asking me questions about another component I haven't even gotten to yet. I like to break a problem down into smaller parts, design each component and tie it all together. Once I get an overall design, I may modify it depending on some requirements I may have not considered. However, it seemed that the engineer expected me to have the same design he had in his mind in the first 10 minutes and he did not let me finish designing even one component let alone finish a thought. Overall, had a very bad experience and if all engineers are like this, then not interested in working for this company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Signed an NDA, but question was a typical system design question.
