DoorDash Interview Experiences

Data Scientist

San Francisco, CA

Fall 2025No Offer

UC Berkeley · Statistics

3rd year · 1 past internship

Average Interview

TechnicalCase studyVirtual

Phone screen with someone from data asked about experiment design and SQL. Technical round was a case on measuring delivery ETA accuracy.

Questions Asked

1.“Why DoorDash over similar companies?”
2.“Describe a time your model performed well in training but poorly in production”

Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Summer 2025Accepted

Georgia Tech · Computer Science

3rd year · 1 past internship

Average Interview

TechnicalBehavioralFast process

Grid traversal and string parsing across two coding rounds. Values chat at the end. Heard back quick.

Questions Asked

1.“Describe a project where the technical requirements were genuinely unclear at the start”
2.“Design a content delivery network from the ground up”

Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Summer 2026No Offer

University of Texas at Austin · Computer Science

2nd year · 2.1-2.4 GPA · 0 past internships

Average Interview

TechnicalBehavioralStressful

Questions were literally so vague and I spent too long asking for clarification instead of just coding. OA first then two back to back interviews. Values chat after

Questions Asked

1.“Tell me about a time you had to deliver a project with a team whose membership changed mid-stream”

Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Winter 2026Declined Offer

Carnegie Mellon University · Computer Science

4th year · 3.7+ GPA · 3 past internships

Average Interview

TechnicalMultiple roundsVirtual

Got the offer but ended up going with another company. Applied early September, phone screen and hten two technical rounds, one was a graph problem

Questions Asked

1.“Given a set of intervals insert a new interval and merge if necessary”
2.“Describe a time you had to debug a production issue under pressure”

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