Weird rejection from Doordash

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JonSnoow

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JonSnoow
Jul 9, 2021 38 Comments

I just got rejected from Doordash for SWE role. What is weird is the way the interview went. It was a 45 minute interview, I got asked one question(leetcode medium-hardish) I solved it within the first 25 minutes, the interviewer asked me to run a test case, then asked me about time complexity, I told him, then he asked me if I had any questions for him, I asked a few questions about Doordash and he answered them, at this point it's 35 minutes into the interview, the he says "Alright I'm gonna let you leave early then" which was 10 minutes earlier, and ended the call right there.

Two days later I got a generic rejection email.

My question is, how is an interview that gets cut off early leads to a rejection? If I didn't give an optimal solution, then the interviewer should've allowed me to use the entire time, so I could maybe come up with a better solution, and not cut off the interview like that, if I gave the wrong time complexity/analysis, then we should've used the rest of the time to come with a better one, or at least give me some time to come up with a better one, we had time to spare.

On the other hand, if he thought I had already seen the question before and I was faking it, then he should've asked a follow up question or maybe switch to a different question, or at least ask me if I had seen the question before(which he didn't ) but not cut the interview early. Of course they didn't provide any feedback on what I did wrong, I just got a generic rejection email.

Anyway just wanted to vent. Have a good night. Thanks for reading.

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  • Bloomberg
    jon❄️

    Go to company page Bloomberg

    jon❄️
    Doordash is a young company with majority of inexperienced people. They built their infrastructure on top of AWS. Those kids think they are super smart. Wait until they have to do real infrastructure development and these kids will cry back to their cribs πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
    Jul 9, 2021 14
    • Your assumptions are partially wrong about how we use aws but sure

      We deploy a lot of the stuff on aws instances, not use services as are.
      Jul 10, 2021
    • Amazon
      yackity

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      yackity
      I would any day hire an engineer from Bloomberg than Doordash. Doordash engineers have the attitude of a PE and the skills of a new hire python script kiddie.
      Jul 22, 2021
  • Roku
    pongoong

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    pongoong
    Yeah DD engineers suck. They have 2 yoe and attitude of Jeff BEZOS. Bloody suckers
    Jul 9, 2021 4
    • Amazon
      yackity

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      yackity
      True. DD employees think they’re amazing because of the recent IPO and their overinflated titles and are fairly terrible at engineering compared to other FAANGs. Source- i have a few friends working there.
      Jul 22, 2021
    • I’m a dd employee ex Amazon
      Let’s say that I didn’t encounter better engs at Amazon than at dd nor do I have any newbies with inflated title in my org but sure πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ
      Jul 23, 2021
  • You dodged the bullet there. Would you have worked with such a person for life? They missed you, not the other way around. That thought could help you rather than this one here when there is no feedback.
    Jul 9, 2021 0
  • That means you’re the problem not your coding

    Or sometimes it’s just life
    Jul 9, 2021 0
  • Your problem solving must just have been as unnecessarily elaborate as the dissection of the Doordash reject.

    Jokes apart, it's not always you. Even if you're skilled, the way you approach problems or think may not necessarily align with the interviewer (or their team)
    You'd surely learn as you interview more often and solve more LC
    Jul 9, 2021 1