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Four Onsite Rounds, Rejected Three Days Later

DoorDashSoftware Engineer · Onsite · Aug 2025

The phone screen was two months ago. The question then was [LeetCode] Koko Eating Bananas. I dragged it out for two months before I finally did the onsite. Four rounds. Round 1 was system design. The question was a three-day donation system. This round was 75 minutes long, but the interviewer and I ended up deep-diving into my project until the 45-minute mark before he even got into the design pa…

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