Interesting work at fast-moving startup - Software Engineer DoorDash Employee Review

5.0
May 25, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

- Able to choose what you work on and tailor projects to your interests - Ability to make an impact - tons of features to be worked on and you can really make a difference in the product and user experience - Engineering-driven culture - while the company has an operational aspect to it, it really is a technology company that sees improving the product as the path to success. Engineers are first class citizens and employees are always thinking about how improvements to the product will make it easier for non-tech parts of the business to succeed - Analytics-driven growth - the company is meticulous about metrics and analytics and is very transparent about current goals and progress as well as where improvements can be made. - No project managers means that engineers get to talk to customers, merchants, and drivers to determine the scope of features and figure out what the company needs most - Engineering culture is good despite the average age of the employees being relatively young - Free meals at work

Cons

- Benefits are good but not great

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5.0
Jun 8, 2026
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Pros

- great healthcare - great recruiting leadership - great compensation

Cons

- limited promotion opportunities - layoffs due to struggling economy

3.0
Jun 9, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You make tips and get to shop at a lot of stores. More areas are open for delivery. You don't go far and have specific zones, like cities, you stay in usually. They give you a special tier of being a Dasher when you're doing the best deliveries, they're called tiers from silver to gold to platinum. Platinum gives you the dash now button allowing you to dash whenever.

Cons

Sometimes the delivery will get marked as if you didn't deliver the item and it gets put on you. There's sometimes drastic waits between orders. The restaurant may be closed or out of the thing the customer ordered. You can't decline order or else the acceptance rating goes down and you'll lose the certain requirements to be a higher tier driver.

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