Amateur Hour - Senior Software Engineer DoorDash Employee Review

2.0
Jan 5, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Company doing well, making customers happy. Those options might be worth something someday. - Quick to adopt new technologies, so you won't get behind the industry curve.

Cons

- Management is really young, and out of their depth. The founders lucked into the business with their school project, and are riding the success to multi-millionaire futures. Unfortunately this doesn't mean that they have any idea of how to run a successful business. - High-ego engineers. Tech meetings which should be fun and supportive often devolve into ego contests where engineers try to squash each other's ideas. Worst engineering culture I've ever seen! - "Unlimited vacation" actually means that you have to feel guilty about time off, and you don't get credit for unused vacation when you leave. Don't get fooled by this ripoff!

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DoorDash Response
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Thanks for sharing the feedback and sorry to hear you didn't have a great experience working at DoorDash. Over the last few months, we've strengthened the executive team by hiring several leaders, including a great VP of Eng. We take feedback very seriously and always want to know how we can improve. If you'd like to discuss more please email me at hr@doordash.com.

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