Doordash E5 Phone Screen-> Onsite -> Offer
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First, I will like to thanks Leetcode community for the help in interview prep. I will like to share interview tips for future aspirants.

Phone Screen

  1. Ask more questions about requirements.
  2. Focus on questions involving heaps or intervals. Those are more frequently asked
    https://leetcode.com/problems/k-closest-points-to-origin/
    https://leetcode.com/problems/employee-free-time/
    etc.

Onsite
Round 1 Behavioral interview

  1. Focus on Doordash principles
  2. Prepare a project with impact
  3. Questions about times when you had conflict, failed etc.
  4. They also focus on diversity questions.

2 Rounds of Coding

  1. Each round has 2 question, each a slight variations of previous one.
  2. Questions were similar to questions already shared in Discuss
  3. Go through the questions tagged under DoorDash

1 System Design

  1. Similar to question shared in Discuss section
  2. Focus is mostly on how different scenarios will be handled
  3. Read the system design primer
  4. Call out latency, scalabilty, availability requirements
  5. Make sure you do capacity estimation
  6. Try to cover these requirements under 10-12 minutes so that you can focus on the design
  7. Then focus on Data Model and API contracts
  8. Also, focus on how you will handle different erros.
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