Considering interviewing with these two companies. I know obvious answer is to interview with both and then decide, wanted to get a sense of how to stack rank the two companies. Would employees at either company consider working at the other ? This is for a backend role. 5 YOE.
Honest assessment having also looked at both: DoorDash IMO has a larger opportunity for upside. Cruise is working on awesome tech but I wasn't able to be convinced that the work they were doing was going to see fruition in the market anytime soon.
Flip side: door dash is in a solved and saturated market.
I’m at Cruise, would not consider switching
Cruise got 3 votes now regardless of where the voters are from..
There will end up being a few big players in the growing food delivery market. Doordash and Uber are the best bet for industry leaders. I can see doordash being a 30B valued company in next 2-3 years like Chinas meituan that recently IPOed. Cruise has too many questions on if the tech will work imo and self driving car has is more winner takes all (aka waymo)
What doordash 30 billion? Where is Grubhub going then ?
https://medium.com/edison-discovers/in-us-food-delivery-wars-grubhub-leads-in-market-share-with-uber-eats-close-behind-doordash-f1d9ffc7b8e5 grubhub consistently losing market share, yet they post record revenue indicates msrket is growing significantly. Maybe 3 years Is short for 30B but even going from current 4B to 20B is a lot easier than Cruise 11B to 55B which is GMs entire valuation. Of course if self driving sees quick adoption AND cruise is the leader then it's very possible and super exciting
Thanks everyone! Great info on here. Looks like people at both places are generally happy! Good to see.
DoorDash: there’s a ton of opportunity (lots of different problems technically to solve) and lots of upside (growing fast, bigger market opportunity).
I don’t agree on “bigger market opportunity “ .............
Don't you guys think that Doordash will lose to Uber eats? Or you think the market is bigger than winner take all, or even Doordash could win in food delivery ligistics business? Anyone from Doordash with better insights?
Have the same concern from Ubereats, what’s doordash’s advantage? Not clear what’s its business model.
Think last mile food/goods delivery is a large enough space for multiple players. Same for self driving imo. Waymo doesn’t have to be the only winner.
Curious to know how compensation compares at the two for engineers with 3-5 yoe.
Also, imo just like ridesharing, the future of food delivery seems to be heading towards autonomous. Thoughts doordash folks ? Do you think you’re well positioned to pivot your business model or is that too far out in the future to worry about now ?
If they grow big, they can get into that business, I dont think it changes business model, just changes the means service is provided. Also I'm seeing last mile delivery autonomous system startups here and there more, getting emails from recruiters, Doordash can acquire them imo
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