DoorDash·Data Scientist

DoorDash Data Scientist interview experience

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Negative

United StatesPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went in expecting a standard case-plus-SQL workflow, and the case portion went fine.

There weren’t concerns raised about the case study itself, but when I asked about company culture, I got a blunt response that everyone works independently—so the conversation didn’t really help me understand how collaboration worked.

Then the SQL round became the stressful part. It was a 30-minute live coding session, and the setup didn’t let me run code to verify anything. In one prompt, I had to calculate and report two metrics using two different tables. The interviewer said they cared about logic more than just syntax, but I still felt like I was expected to mentally simulate the data

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