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Missed the Case Answer Until Five Minutes of Hints Got Me There

DoorDashData Scientist · Technical Screen · Oct 2025

I had this interview not long ago. The SQL was the classic Delivery set — the overall question volume was pretty large, but not every question required you to actually write it out. Some of them asked how you'd turn an existing query into an aggregated version, and the interviewer just had me talk through how I'd change the query instead of writing the code, to save time. The case question was: c…

Shared by a candidate · reported Oct 2025. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.