I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at DoorDash (San Francisco, CA) in Jun 2018
Interview
Extremely organized and efficient process from start to finish. I was really impressed with how smooth everything was.
The general steps in the process were: recruiter chat -> choice of take-home project or phone screen -> onsite -> verbal offer less than 24 hours later -> reference checks -> written offer in less than a week.
I picked the take-home project because I'm terrible at phone screens. Enjoyed the project; I'll say it's easy to medium depending on your experience. If you understand how to gather requirements, build efficient APIs, and structure code in a clean manner, you'll be OK.
The onsite was definitely hard, lasted almost the entire day, and involved several interviews (1 hard algorithms interview with some system design elements, 2 medium algorithms interviews, 1 system design interview, 1 culture fit). All of my interviewers for my onsite had pretty interesting backgrounds and I got the sense that I'd learn a lot from working with them i.e. one of them was one of the original engineers behind S3 and DynamoDB at AWS.
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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