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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

January 19, 2026
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks.

There was a phone interview, and then I moved on to the onsite. The onsite was divided into 3 interviews:

  • One focused on system design and domain knowledge.
  • Followed by a coding round that involved debugging a snippet of code, fixing issues in the test suite, implementing an algorithm, and ensuring all test cases pass.
  • Finally, a behavioral interview.

This was for the L5 role, not an entry-level position.

Questions

For debugging: Make sure this backend implementation of the round-robin load balancer works, change any tests where you may see an issue, and update any of the code to make sure the logic runs as expected.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 43 interview experiences for the DoorDash Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

21%
Pass Rate

DoorDash's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive47%
Neutral21%
Negative33%

Candidates reported having good feelings for DoorDash's Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.

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