Software Engineer Interview Experience - Sunnyvale, California
July 28, 2026
Positive ExperienceGot Offer
Process
I applied through an employee referral. The process took two weeks.
- Coding round
- Virtual Onsite: debugging round, where I was given the code of a round robin load balancer, had to fix the bugs, and implement the load balancer using consistent hashing
- Virtual Onsite: system design
- Virtual Onsite: hiring manager chat
Questions
Coding round: With a given class, write a get bootstrap API to retrieve customerId, address, and payment info.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 4 interview experiences for the DoorDash Software Engineer role in Sunnyvale, California.
Success Rate
25%
Pass Rate
DoorDash's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Sunnyvale, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Positive50%
Neutral50%
Negative0%
Candidates reported having very good feelings for DoorDash's Software Engineer interview process in Sunnyvale, California.
DoorDash Work Experiences
5.0
Great Pay, Talented Chill Coworkers but Toxic Management
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Sunnyvale, California, United States
January 2, 2025
Pros: - Pay
- Smart but chill colleagues
- Growing fast, barely expanded out of the US
Cons: - Toxic management that shuffles the pay stack for no good reason every couple of years.
- Horrible relocation assistance.
3.0
Good Engineers, Naive Decisions
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Sunnyvale, California, United States
March 20, 2023
Pros: A lot of good engineers works with you.
Cons: Naive decision makers. Bad work-life balance.
1.0
Sweatshop and toxic managers
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Sunnyvale, California, United States
August 30, 2025
Pros: - Salary is good.
- Can learn a lot.
Cons: - Worst WLB
- Super toxic management
- A lot of politics
- 5.0Great Pay, Talented Chill Coworkers but Toxic ManagementSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSunnyvale, California, United StatesJanuary 2, 2025Pros: - Pay - Smart but chill colleagues - Growing fast, barely expanded out of the USCons: - Toxic management that shuffles the pay stack for no good reason every couple of years. - Horrible relocation assistance.
- 3.0Good Engineers, Naive DecisionsSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeSunnyvale, California, United StatesMarch 20, 2023Pros: A lot of good engineers works with you.Cons: Naive decision makers. Bad work-life balance.
- 1.0Sweatshop and toxic managersSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeSunnyvale, California, United StatesAugust 30, 2025Pros: - Salary is good. - Can learn a lot.Cons: - Worst WLB - Super toxic management - A lot of politics
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