DoorDash·Software Engineer

DoorDash Software Engineer interview experience

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I did a four-round loop that mixed deep system thinking with more hands-on debugging.

The first round began with me talking through a recent project for about the first quarter hour, and then it turned into designing an application for aggregated food item ratings and posts that people could like. The system also needed to support monthly income settlements for drivers based on delivery performance, and most of the conversation stayed anchored in data modeling and breaking the system into parts.

The second round was coding and API orchestration: I aggregated data by calling multiple mock APIs, handled possible failures, implemented retry behavior, and wrote tests to validate

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