DoorDash Software Engineer interview experience

I was trying to get a handle on the exact order ahead of time because the questions I kept hearing about were broad—coding on the first day, then more role-relevant discussion after.

What surprised me was how quickly the process moved from solving problems to switching gears into deeper communication. The coding rounds were the most obvious part—expecting requirements to be clarified and then producing working, test-passing code—but it also felt like the interviewers were listening for clarity and correctness throughout, not just the final output. After that, I was pulled into the rest of