I networked with someone looking to hire on his team for a role posted that fit my skills and interests perfectly. I spoke with him, who referred me to arecruiter. The recruiter emailed me a week later asking for a blind challenge assessment (1 page essay) on a specific question, but had no other contact, and didn't answer my questions until I followed up. After a few days, the recruiter emailed saying they wanted me to move forward. She didn't mention what the interview format would be, but after interviewing at DoorDash previously, I knew to expect a 30 min behavioral and 30 min case interview with two other S&O team members. My blind challenge was never raised again. The interviewers were wonderful and the interviews went really well, but they weren't part of the team I would have been joining. After this round, the recruiter emailed me a take home case to work on over the weekend and present to a Senior Director and two other S&O team members who would be part of my actual team. The only advice I got from my recruiter was not to make a deck, but rather put together a word document / Google doc to walk through. I received great feedback during my presentation from the Senior Director (who was the HM and very engaged), but the other two team members seemed disinterested. I moved to the next round, which was two 45 minute behavioral interviews, one with the Senior Director again, and a 45 minute case interview (which had absolutely nothing to do with the role I was applying for, but focused more on one of DoorDash's 3 pronged marketplace). The recruiter and coordinator were a bit disorganized, and rescheduled my original interviews to a time I had specifically said I was unavailable during. It was too much effort to get in touch and move them, since response times were often so long, so I had to rearrange my work schedule to accommodate. I was given great feedback from the case interviewer and other S&O interviewer, though my Senior Director interviewer was 15 minutes late and I didn't feel as though I had enough time to chat with her. I still felt as though the interviews went well and had proved that I had the relevant experience, interest, and fit to be a good addition to the team and hoped I'd make it to the last 30 minute interview round with the S&O VP as a "final fit" interview. I was a bit surprised when the recruiter called me a week later to say they weren't moving forward. She provided me with no feedback and hung up after a 2 minute conversation. It was frustrating, because she hadn't been very helpful during the entire process and refused to share relevant feedback after I had spent 5 weeks going through the recruitment process. I felt as though I was a burden to her and some of the actual team members had a haughty attitude during my interviews that I didn't focus on until after I received the rejection. I even emailed the Senior Director, thanking her again for her time and asking if she had any feedback she could share, and received no response. Looking back, I'm glad I wasn't blinded by my desire to get the role and accept an offer if I received it, because DoorDash's internal processes and systems seem to be in disarray and many of the people seem to have a superiority complex, which is not a culture I want to be part of. I really had high hopes, but was once again disappointed by DoorDash and probably won't apply again, especially after getting so far through the process and not feeling valued at all.
