I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at DoorDash (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2023
Interview
The first round consists of 2 hour interview; one was coding and another system design. This is not onsite, this is just the 1st round. I am use to 1 hour coding interview, but why was 2 hour given? Also, after wasting my time, the recruiter did not provide any feedbacks on what went bad or good. They straight rejected me, even though I did pretty well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first coding question: Given a restaurant name, find other restaurants in the list that are k-anagrams with each other. A name is a k-anagram with another name if both the conditions below are true: The names contain the same number of characters. The names can be turned into anagrams by changing at most k characters in the string For example: name = "grammar", k = 3 and list = ["anagram"], "grammar" is k-anagram with "anagram" since they contain the same number of characters and you can change 'r' to 'n' and 'm' to 'a'. name = "omega grill", k = 2 and list = ["jmega frill"], "omega grill" is k-anagram with "jmega frill" since they contain same number of characters and you can change 'o' to 'j' and 'g' to 'f'
coding online assesment virtual onsite. interviewers were professional and helpful. asked to deep dive on project. recruiter was responsive and could align with offer deadlines. was helpful with negotiations. coding problems were average difficulty.
Walking into the coding interview, I was taken aback when they asked about finding the K nearest restaurants based on coordinates. Just days before, I had stumbled on a mock on prachub.com that mirrored this question almost exactly. The interview felt straightforward, but I struggled with some behavioral questions. Overall, the experience was underwhelming; I expected more technical depth. After several rounds, they decided to go in another direction, which was disappointing given my prep efforts.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of restaurants with their coordinates and a user's location, find the K nearest restaurants
it was very easy, they ask basic programming questions, can be solved with minimal prep, however they ask a lot about why u want to work here, be prepared to talk for a long time