Candidatei-me por meio de recrutador(a). Fui entrevistado pela DoorDash (San Francisco, CA) em fev. de 2021
Entrevista
Since I was pressed for time having an offer on hand, I was given a Karat interview. Karat interviews are not the same as interviewing with company employee. While a company employee can see that your problem solving skills are strong, and whether you are able to think of optimal solution to a challenging problem, this doesn't work the same way with Karat. Either they should ask only one question and test for optimality and don't ask dev ops or system design questions because it's not possible to assess someone's knowledge with those 2-3 questions and I'm not sure how they rate those. Even after having a lot of experience and having taken so many challenges in my job, they always gave me a bad rating for those. It's not possible to judge someone's knowledge that way, they should stick to coding questions only. Overall I always had bad experience with them when I was easily able to clear technical phone interview for some of the big companies when interviewing directly with company employees. But with Karat it's a blind game. And if you solved a hard problem fast, they give you second one and if you don't solve that within time, it doesn't matter that you already solved a hard problem and they don't give you good reviews. I absolutely do not recommend taking the Karat assessment, request interview with company employee no matter what because chances to get approved by Karat are low.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
It was a Karat interview and they have their own questions.
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The process is fast but the technical rounds are exhausting. DoorDash heavily indexes on practical implementation over pure algorithmic theory. You will get domain specific questions about dispatching Dashers or tracking active restaurant orders. After the technical screen there was a virtual onsite with a mix of heavy system design and practical live coding. They expect you to write production ready code very quickly.
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Candidatura
Candidatei-me por meio de recrutador(a). Fui entrevistado pela DoorDash (San Francisco, CA) em mai. de 2026
Entrevista
A DoorDash recruiter contacted me twice on LinkedIn about what sounded like an active senior engineering opportunity related to AI / agentic systems. The outreach was polished and made the role sound urgent and relevant to my background. After I replied, I was sent a Calendly link, but the first available slot was several weeks out. I scheduled the call anyway.
Shortly before the scheduled call, the recruiter canceled with a generic message saying the position had been filled and they could not move forward. This was especially frustrating because the same pattern had happened before: outreach, long wait for recruiter availability, then cancellation because the role was no longer available.
My impression was that this was more like pipeline sourcing than a real active recruiting process. I understand roles can close, but candidates should not be asked to wait weeks for a call unless there is a real approved opening and the recruiter can confirm the job ID, team, level, and hiring scope. DoorDash should be more transparent when outreach is only exploratory.
Advice to candidates: Before scheduling time with DoorDash recruiting, ask for the official job link, job ID, team, level, location, and confirmation that the role is still active. Otherwise, you may spend weeks waiting for a recruiter screen that gets canceled before it happens.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
No interview questions were asked because the recruiter canceled before the scheduled call.
