DoorDash·Data Scientist

DoorDash Data Scientist interview experience

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San Francisco, CAPosted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I experienced a pretty awkward SQL interview format.

The SQL portion was only 30 minutes, and it was run by a manager who joined late with their camera off. They pasted the question into a shared document and told me to just write the code without talking, then they would review it at the end. It didn’t feel like a collaborative check of reasoning so much as a silent coding test.

Earlier in my process, I also had a first call with a recruiter followed by a technical interview that combined SQL and a case study. The SQL work seemed to focus on joins and CTEs, and the case study was framed like a business problem where I’d need to explain how

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