DoorDash·Software Engineer

DoorDash Software Engineer interview experience

Medium

Negative

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went into an aggregated-API coding interview that felt tedious and oddly unclear about what the interviewers were evaluating.

The task was to design aggregated APIs from three downstream APIs: implement calls into other services and shape the responses into a combined format. The environment was very quiet, and there were two interviewers. One shadowed me, and there was minimal back-and-forth.

I ended up writing getter-style methods, but the interviewers never really explained the purpose behind each piece as I went. To make it more uncomfortable, they couldn’t see my screen—only the code view—so it felt like they were watching the mechanics rather than understanding my intent. The lack of constraints or special

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