I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at DoorDash in Jan 2022
Interview
A hiring manager from one of the engineering teams reached out to me, and we hopped on a call back in November 2021. Because of the holidays, I had to reschedule the technical for January 2022, and I had the onsite a week after the technical.
I chose the front end route, so the technical interview involved implementing a React application for an image carousel. I wasn't super familiar with React, but the interviewer worked with me on that aspect, telling me when I could use certain hooks, syntax, etc.
There were 4 interviews during the onsite: behavioral, system design, domain knowledge (similar to a behavioral interview, but focused on technical aspects of projects), onsite project feature (adds features to the image carousel app you did during the technical interview). I was pleasantly surprised by the system design interview. It felt like it had a lot of structure and were focused on how to design particular responses, etc. of a specific application v. a more general problem statement and focusing on databases, or technologies. I really appreciated the fact that there were no LeetCode questions and it was more of a test of practical knowledge (and was language agnostic as well ; even though there was a test in React, they make the effort to help you out if you're not familiar with it.
Overall, interviewers were friendly and helpful. Recruiters were very prompt and professional. And overall, it was a very pleasant experience.
Thank you very much for your feedback. We greatly appreciate your perspective on the DoorDash interview process. If you have any additional feedback please email recruiting@doordash.com.
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The process is fast but the technical rounds are exhausting. DoorDash heavily indexes on practical implementation over pure algorithmic theory. You will get domain specific questions about dispatching Dashers or tracking active restaurant orders. After the technical screen there was a virtual onsite with a mix of heavy system design and practical live coding. They expect you to write production ready code very quickly.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at DoorDash (San Francisco, CA) in May 2026
Interview
A DoorDash recruiter contacted me twice on LinkedIn about what sounded like an active senior engineering opportunity related to AI / agentic systems. The outreach was polished and made the role sound urgent and relevant to my background. After I replied, I was sent a Calendly link, but the first available slot was several weeks out. I scheduled the call anyway.
Shortly before the scheduled call, the recruiter canceled with a generic message saying the position had been filled and they could not move forward. This was especially frustrating because the same pattern had happened before: outreach, long wait for recruiter availability, then cancellation because the role was no longer available.
My impression was that this was more like pipeline sourcing than a real active recruiting process. I understand roles can close, but candidates should not be asked to wait weeks for a call unless there is a real approved opening and the recruiter can confirm the job ID, team, level, and hiring scope. DoorDash should be more transparent when outreach is only exploratory.
Advice to candidates: Before scheduling time with DoorDash recruiting, ask for the official job link, job ID, team, level, location, and confirmation that the role is still active. Otherwise, you may spend weeks waiting for a recruiter screen that gets canceled before it happens.
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Question 1
No interview questions were asked because the recruiter canceled before the scheduled call.
1 round of coding 1 round behavior, leetcode hard and project sharing, did pretty well in both and still rejected. leetcode : graph related , project sharing interview : leadership and explain ownership
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