I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at DoorDash in Sept 2021
Interview
Had a phone screen with an engineer there. He asked the same leetcode hard question on all the DoorDash threads, but changed it slightly so it required a trick to solve. I solved it right away before he introduced the edge case. The interviewer was not very helpful and kept saying things like "just look on line 12".
Eventually ran out of time and the interviewer said they would show me the solution. They changed my code and said this was the solution, but it did not pass the test cases either and they were confused.
I got to ask some questions and they told me they use Kotlin so I told them I was not interested in working in Kotlin, probably did not pass the interview anyway.
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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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