Doordash front end take home assignment followup interview
I recently finished developing the front end assignment to build a chat app and I have follow up interview rounds to discuss about the project with their Engineer. What should I expect ?
I recently finished developing the front end assignment to build a chat app and I have follow up interview rounds to discuss about the project with their Engineer. What should I expect ?
As with any post take home project interview, expect to be asked questions about the system you designed. Why did you use the tech stack, pros/cons you took into consideration when making your decision. For example, for a chat app, I’d expect real-time messages. So if you went with something like websockets, explain why and compare with another approach. Of course, this could go in any direction possible so be ready to talk about your data model, database choice and almost any dependency you brought in/what you rolled out yourself. Code quality is important. There should be no syntax errors, odd indentation choices and your code should be modular and stick to best practices/style guides. Part of the interview would be checking out your presentation skills, use of technical language, competency when answering questions etc. I’ve seen people have a slideshow presentation with code snippets and screenshots (should be as short as possible to avoid reading from slides) but at a minimum, have the app open on a tab as well as the code opened in your editor. You can expect questions about what was challenging or what did you have to learn so have something ready for that. Best of luck!
That’s great! Thanks a lot 🙏
Thats very detailed. Thank you. Have an upcoming onsite interview and was having the same question