coding online assesment virtual onsite. interviewers were professional and helpful. asked to deep dive on project. recruiter was responsive and could align with offer deadlines. was helpful with negotiations. coding problems were average difficulty.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at DoorDash (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2021
Interview
Very typical process - nothing unusual here. Pretty flexible on time frames too.
Phone calls with recruiters.
Technical interview doing leetcode.
Onsite involving 2 rounds of leetcode, 1 round with a hiring manager, 1 round of system design.
Had another interview later on where I had to do another round for an area of specific expertise.
Had to talk with a director once or twice as well.
From there - offer is sent. Talk with recruiter - negotiate on numbers (very easy process - just look at levels to get an idea of what is reasonable to ask for).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Topological sort question - just study topological sort.
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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
