Backend Engineer - Software Engineer DoorDash Employee Review

5.0
25 Sept 2017
Recommend
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Pros

-Fast business growth -Lots of interesting technical challenge to solve to keep pace with growth -Well-designed and useful product

Cons

-For the last couple years the engineering team has skewed pretty junior. This means the team is energetic and hard-working, but prone to make poor design and architectural decisions. The few senior engineers have been given a lot of responsibility but are stretched pretty thin as a result. The recruiting and management teams have been focusing on hiring more senior engineers for the past 6 months, and we are good progress towards building out the eng team with more senior devs. The company is doing a decent job going through the often-painful process of changing from scrappy startup to more mature business.

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5.0
27 Mar 2026
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Pros

Great side hustle/part time especially those in college

Cons

Customer service can be hard to reach when needed.

3.0
9 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You make tips and get to shop at a lot of stores. More areas are open for delivery. You don't go far and have specific zones, like cities, you stay in usually. They give you a special tier of being a Dasher when you're doing the best deliveries, they're called tiers from silver to gold to platinum. Platinum gives you the dash now button allowing you to dash whenever.

Cons

Sometimes the delivery will get marked as if you didn't deliver the item and it gets put on you. There's sometimes drastic waits between orders. The restaurant may be closed or out of the thing the customer ordered. You can't decline order or else the acceptance rating goes down and you'll lose the certain requirements to be a higher tier driver.

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