DoorDash·Software Engineer

DoorDash Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

ItalyPosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I was approached by a sourcer and agreed to interview, even though I’d previously had a bad experience with Deliveroo and I later regretted trusting the process.

This DoorDash interview ended up being one of the worst I’d had.

As soon as I opened HackerRank, I was hit with an enormous wall of text describing an entire API to build—more like something that would take ten minutes just to read, never mind implement. The starter code looked messy too: random classes with no real structure, and it didn’t match basic Java code quality expectations.

What made it especially painful was the interviewer’s engagement. During most of the session the interviewer was on his phone—texting and scrolling—so the interaction felt unprofessional and disengaged. I

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