DoorDash Interview Questions

Tim W. - "Clarify "What do you mean by favorite product? Are you thinking specifically hardware, software, or a feature within those, or something non-electronic? Dealer's Choice. "Are you asking why I love this product, or to explain why this product is a market leader independent of how i feel about it? Talk about why YOU love this product. Rephrase Question With all that in mind, i want to rephrase the question. "What is your favorite software product and what features in this product"See full answer

Kartikeya N. - "Clarifying questions: What is meant by abuse?: Fake, paid reviews Are we looking at any particular country ? : Global Have we seen an increase in the number of fake reviews on Amazon?: Yes Can we quantify the % of fake reviews and how much it has increased in the recent past?: Can’t divulge company data Lets first start with the Vision of Amazon. It is to be the world’s most customer centric company. That is a very lofty and high standards’ Vision. So the problem we are trying to s"See full answer

Kartikeya N. - "Let me first start with some clarifying questions What do we mean by 10x? User engagement/ revenue/ acquisition?: Revenue Are we looking at global revenue or from a particular market like USA?: Global Are there any constraints or timelines for this ask?: Not much constraints, lets aim for a 10X increase in 5 years Sure, let me first start with the Goal of Duolingo. Duolingo’s aim is to simplify language learning and make it entertaining as well as educational. It is known for it’s use of"See full answer

Rushab S. - "Before we can delve into opportunities to increase revenue and create a roadmap for next 5 years, let's look at Spotify's Vision and Mission Statement Who are the key stakeholders currently in spotify's ecosystem and how does spotify make revenue What are some of the key market trends that impact the stakeholders in the spotify's ecosystem Spotify's Vision and Mission Statement Mission: Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity Vision: Spotify's vision is to be"See full answer

Aabid S. - "We had a huge launch on September 1st of this year where we completely redesigned our application from the grounds up and also migrated to a new platform (React.JS). This project took us 8 months and the launch was a huge deal for the team. Unfortunately the launch wasn't as smooth as we expected and despite doing multiple rounds of QA, some major issues cropped up in the core part of the app right after launch and our client was quite upset since it was disrupting their day-to-day workflow. "See full answer

Bipin R. - "As you know, this is the most important question for any interview. Here is a structure I like to follow, Start with 'I'm currently a SDE/PM/TPM etc with XYZ company.... ' Mention how you got into PM/TPM/SDE field (explaining your journey) Mention 1 or 2 accomplishments Mention what you do outside work (blogging, volunteer etc) Share why are you looking for a new role Ask the interviewer if they have any questions or will like to dive deep into any of your experience"See full answer

Kunal S. - "Clarifying questions: Are there any specific constraints that you want me to take in to account when thinking through this problem : [Interviewer] No Can i think through this in freeform or is there a specific goal we are trying to achieve : [Interviewer] I will let you decide the goal Strategic Analysis: Spotifyies mission is to - "Unlock the potential of human creativity – by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the o"See full answer

Shubh - "Defining the product Spotify is a music & podcast streaming application and by podcast, we are talking about the audio podcasts which creators upload on the app. Clarifying Questions & respective assumptions Context Who are we improving the product for? Creators or Consumers? What are the current features for consumers in brief? Each podcast has episodes, about(audio trailer), more like this Why are we doing this? Where are we planning to l"See full answer

Scott S. - " To clarify on what we are trying to solve for and get the definition of a distributed scheduler straight . So A Distributed Scheduler refers to a system that can handle job scheduling and execution in a scalable and fault-tolerant manner by distributing the workload across multiple servers or nodes. we will make some assumptions with the design , as follows: we will assume 10,000 QPS for job submissions and should be able query for jobs status . Job execution should have minimal latency"See full answer

Anonymous Aardvark - "QUESTION: Imagine that you are a PM that owns the post booking experience at Airbnb.How would you solve for the worst post-booking experience? Follow-up questions: Specific business goal in mind? (no) What is my scope? Do I own all post booking across product category? Or is there a specific product that I am focussing on (events, homes, specific home duration)? (you chose) Am I focussing on the user - renter or event goer? Or the creator - host or event creator? (your choice) Do yo"See full answer

Sreeram reddy B. - "user table - with userid, username, email, phonenumber, accountcreateddate exercises table - types of exercises - indoor walk, outdoor walk, running, stairs, cycling, swimming etc - exerciseid, exercisetype date table - date, day, month, year - with dateid Session table - userid, sessiondateid(linked to dateid in date table), exerciseid, distance covered, calories spent, starttime, endtime "See full answer

Hashmina H. - "Clarifying Questions: Do we want to target a particular geography or location or should it be done globally? Assume global Is there any particular platform and device we are targeting (App/web) or should it be cross platforms? Cross platforms Can I think about it as Product led solutions or do you want to consider marketing alternatives as well? Let's start with Product led solutions & later if time permits, we can touch on the marketing side as well Are there any constra"See full answer

Anshika R. - "Functional Requirement User should be able to add review the food item/order User should be able to rate the food item delivered User should be able to Like/Dislike others reviews User should be able to see all reviews on a food item Users should be able to receive rewards based on criteria- (Quality of the reviews- Based on number of likes - Monthly cash card) OOS - Item is already ordered and exists in a separate system, User is authenticated. No Media Non Functional requireme"See full answer

D P. - "Question for the community: have others experienced a situation where the interviewer really pushed for defining a success metric early on in the case before making too much progress on the case itself? If so, how did you handle? How I approached the case: I used the framework taught here on Exponent but have a question for the community. At the beginning of the interview, I shared my steps - company goals, customer, painpoints, solutions, prioritize and if we had time, I'll explore some succ"See full answer

Bk - "To bring any product to market here are the below steps that I would (did) take: 1.Understand the problem stmt / stakeholder need and asses depth of the problem (qualitatively and then gather metrics to quantify it) 2.Do market study on understanding relatable solutions if any 3.Carve out viable solution/ideation that aligns with overall Business Vision/Goal 4.Get stakeholders buy in on the idea 5.Guesstimate and prioritize high level features, Cost and ROI. 6.Build Business case for Project Le"See full answer

Maya B. - "Sounds like interesting problem! First I'd like to clarify a few things.... Clarify/Find Constraints. WHO - who are we improving the post-booking experience for? restaurant visitors? or restaurant staff who view reservations? new vs existing users? WHAT - what do we mean by improve? is there a specific metric we're looking to improve upon (user experience? increasing show-up rate? booking a second time? etc.?) confirm process/JTBD - are we referring to the standard OpenTab"See full answer

Mike C. - "Before I dive in, I have a few questions - what defines 'quality' and can it be quantitatively measured? (quality is based on the ride score given to each driver) To begin, let's define Lyfts mission. Lyfts mission is 'to improve peoples lives with the best transportation.' Next, I will define the different user segments Lyft serves, select a high-impact user segment, define their pain points, solve for a particularly affecting pain point, and promote solutions. I will discuss metrics once I h"See full answer

Steven M. - "Clarifying questions: I assume we're focused on the consumer side of this? ** Yes I am assuming post booking begins immediately after booking a ticket and ends when the user leaves the airport at their destination. Does that sound right? ** Yes Goals: United Airlines wants to get its passengers to their destination seamlessly, safely, and on time. Users: I think about user groups in 3 main buckets. 1) 24 hours following booking 2) >24 following booking through 24 hours before boarding "See full answer

Michael F. - "Prompt: We work for an online shopping website. Our team wants to consider offering discounts (e.g. 10% off your next purchase) to customers to incentivize them to make purchases. How would you design a system that decides how to offer these incentives? Answer Goals: Increase customer engagement while controlling costs. Specifically, we want the increase in revenue per customer per week of customers that receive the discount to be greater than the cost of the discount. Metrics: Revenue per cu"See full answer

Nikita G. - "Thanks for the question. The way I would like to proceed with this question is firstly, to get more context about the problem by asking some clarifying questions and narrowing the scope. Then, I would like to break the problem into smaller components to understand where exactly our problem lies. Then make a user journey for that particular area and identify the technical and non-technical factors which might affect this change specific to our company/product. Post that, I'll analyse the external"See full answer