DoorDash Software Engineer interview experience

The technical question was a LeetCode hard—one of those that shows up at the top of tagged lists—so it was clear I was expected to handle serious complexity.

Even though I’d prepared and managed to get it working without hints, the experience felt tense. The interviewer kept jumping in mid-code with “suggestions” that made the solution path more confusing instead of clarifying anything. At one point, they mentioned an autonomy framing—engineers supposedly owning everything end to end and getting little input from managers—which came across as a red flag to me rather than something