DoorDash interview notes, page 18 of 42

“This is one question but it's really like six questions stapled together.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at DoorDash, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The subset checking part is straightforward enough but the naive approach gets slow fast when the lists are long.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at DoorDash, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This thing had five sub-parts and I felt the walls closing in around part (c).” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at DoorDash, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one I actually felt okay about going in.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at DoorDash, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The canceled order part was easy, I knocked that out fast.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at DoorDash, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Starting with your own project sounds easy but it's actually a trap for overthinking.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at DoorDash, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This question has a lot of layers and I spent probably too long on the API contract before getting to the interesting parts.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at DoorDash, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went broad first, which was a mistake.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at DoorDash, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The constructor one clicked pretty fast.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at DoorDash, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The 'worst' framing tripped me up a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at DoorDash, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.