DoorDash·Software Engineer

DoorDash Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My technical screen started with an interviewer who spoke very poor English.

They spent a long time—about ten minutes—trying to explain the problem and even copying it into the HackerRank session, which made the start feel inefficient. The task itself was to add functionality to an existing 300-line Python HTTP server using a framework I wasn’t familiar with.

I asked for clarifications on the instructions multiple times, but the answers I got were vague. I implemented code using the existing functions, but I was told it wasn’t done right without getting additional specific guidance. That part was especially frustrating because it left me unsure how to correct

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