I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at DoorDash (Denver, CO) in Sept 2023
Interview
After a recruiter screening, you get a take home assignment. It is pretty open ended, and you can put a TON of time into it, and you have 48 hours to submit. If I was working a full time job, I would have had to do it over the weekend, because I put a full 2 days into it. It is basically a large data set, and you need to analyze and make recommendations. The data set is imperfect (intentionally, to see how you will use the date), so you can't just get in there and start building pivot tables. If you pass that, you do 2 sets of 2 interviews back to back with team members. Some seem to be very focused on relationships and culture, some are more strategic questions (If you saw a trend in data of restaurants doing X, how would you interpret that?). Then, a final interview with a higher up manager. I made it ot the final round but lost out to one person.
recruiter was very nice; case study was extremely tough and time consuming. no feedback was given and was rejected despite spending the whole day working on it. Not sure what they're looking for but be prepared to spend a lot of time on it
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself and Walk me through a time you worked on a difficult project
First round is with the recruiter, then you are given a take home test which revolves around analyzing data. If you pass, you are then moved onto the next round with the hiring manager and senior manager. They don't provide feedback on interviews.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at DoorDash (New York, NY) in Oct 2025
Interview
Recruiter reached out about a role I had applied to, said that she will push my profile to a different S&O role as this one was already quite ahead in the process for a few candidates. Sent a take home exercise and then ghosted me.
Another recruiter reached out after I applied to a different job through a referral, said that since I had done a take home recently, I won’t have to do it again and will talk to the team to use that as a proxy and then ghosted again.
