DoorDash interview questions

56 questions30 coding5 system design21 behavioral16 freeUpdated

This is every question in the DoorDash guide, in one list: 30 coding problems, 5 system designs and 21 behavioral questions, drawn from what candidates report about DoorDash interviews.

Each row shows the round it comes from and links to the lesson that works through it. 16 are free to read in full. The other 40 are Premium, and here you still see their round, difficulty and topic, so you know what you're walking into.

DoorDash coding interview questions

30 problems, in the order the guide teaches them. Each lesson gives the full problem, a worked solution and the follow-ups interviewers tend to add.

1Walls and Gates: Nearest DashMartFreeMediumGraphs & Grids
2Longest Increasing Path: Routing UphillFreeHardGraphs & Grids
3Count Sub Islands: Coverage ZonesFreeMediumGraphs & Grids
4Making a Large Island: Label Once, Flip One BlockFreeHardGraphs & Grids
5Maximum Path Quality: Backtracking Under a Time BudgetFreeHardGraphs & Grids
6Maximum Profit in Job Scheduling: Sort-by-End DPFreeHardDP & Scheduling
7Most Profit Assigning Work: Greedy SweepFreeMediumDP & Scheduling
8Catering Budget: 0/1 KnapsackFreeMediumDP & Scheduling
9Longest Common Pickup Run: LCS on Two Dashers' ListsFreeMediumDP & Scheduling
10Premium medium problemMediumArrays, Strings & Hashing
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16Premium hard problemHardTrees & Tries
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21Premium medium problemMediumTrees & Tries
22Premium hard problemHardHeaps & Linked Lists
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25Dasher Payout: Base, Peak, Tip, in CentsFreeMediumCode Craft & Debugging
26Aggregate the Downstream Services: One Response From Three APIsFreeMediumCode Craft & Debugging
27Round-Robin Traffic Router: Debug the RotationFreeMediumCode Craft & Debugging
28Dasher Assignment Service: The Index That Goes StaleFreeMediumCode Craft & Debugging
29Checkout: A Cart Total with Promotions and Delivery FeeFreeMediumThe AI Coding Round
30Support Workflow Engine: Nodes, Branches, and a Partial RefundFreeMediumThe AI Coding Round

DoorDash system design interview questions

5 designs, each worked end to end in its own lesson, from requirements to the architecture and its trade-offs.

#Question
1Design Order & DispatchFree
2Design Dasher Assignment (Premium)
3Design ETA Prediction (Premium)
4Design Resilient Payments (Premium)
5Design Reviews & Ratings (Premium)

A lock means the design is named here and its walkthrough is Premium.

DoorDash behavioral interview questions

21 questions, grouped by what the interviewer is testing. The lesson explains why each one gets asked and what a strong answer covers.

Why DoorDash & product interest (3)

All 3 are Premium

Ownership & leadership (3)

All 3 are Premium

Bias for action & speed vs risk (3)

All 3 are Premium

Ambiguity & incomplete data (3)

All 3 are Premium

Conflict & pushback (3)

All 3 are Premium

Failure & learning (3)

All 3 are Premium

Scrappiness & lowest level of detail (3)

All 3 are Premium

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Premium opens the 40 locked questions on this page, each with the full prompt and a worked answer, and every other lesson in all 100 company guides.

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How many questions are in the DoorDash interview guide?

56: 30 coding problems, 5 system designs and 21 behavioral questions. The guide was last updated in November 2026.

Which rounds do these DoorDash interview questions come from?

All 30 coding problems come from the coding rounds. The 5 system designs and 21 behavioral questions come from the system design and behavioral rounds. Every row in the list carries its round, so you can start with the one you have booked.

Which DoorDash interview questions are free?

16 of the 56 are free to read in full, marked Free in the list. The other 40 come with Premium, which also opens all 100 company guides.