DoorDash·Software Engineer

DoorDash Software Engineer interview experience

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a DoorDash interview sequence that leaned heavily into specialized domain topics.

The first part was centered on an NLP/LLM domain knowledge discussion, and the second focused on post-training and evaluations.

Even without a lot of time to overthink, I realized the questions weren’t just about buzzwords—they were about how models are trained and how results are evaluated after training. I remember shifting my mindset from general engineering problem solving into something closer to reasoning about model behavior and measurement.

By the time I finished both rounds, I felt like I was being evaluated for depth and clarity in the specific area rather than generic software

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