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Software Engineer Interview Experience

December 1, 2016
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

A recruiter reached out to me, and soon after, we were able to schedule an onsite interview.

I had an initial call with a hiring manager, and from there, I went straight to onsite interviews.

The onsite interviews were pretty standard.

For the coding interviews, you are asked to bring in your own laptop.

There was also an "open-source debugging" interview round that did not seem too mature yet – the interviewer ended up just giving me a whiteboard question instead.

Overall, I had:

  • 3 coding rounds
  • 1 architecture round
  • 1 round with a hiring manager

The coding questions were of average difficulty. Nothing too hard.

The recruiter ended up telling me that they went with a more senior person for the role. Since I never applied online (the recruiter directly reached out to me), this was very confusing.

If they wanted someone more senior, they should have told me that before I interviewed. If I just didn't pass the interviews, then they should have told me that directly and honestly.

Questions

Code a stack data structure.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 179 interview experiences for the DoorDash Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

11%
Pass Rate

DoorDash's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive34%
Neutral30%
Negative36%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for DoorDash's Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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