--- title: Why DoorDash is rebuilding its engineering interviews... description: DoorDash has replaced traditional algorithmic coding interviews with 60-minute AI-assisted engineering working sessions. Candidates use their own machine,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-doordash-is-rebuilding-its-engineering-interviews-around-ai-7molfavfy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why DoorDash is rebuilding its engineering interviews around AI | daily.dev og:description: DoorDash has replaced traditional algorithmic coding interviews with 60-minute AI-assisted engineering working sessions. Candidates use their own machine,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-doordash-is-rebuilding-its-engineering-interviews-around-ai-7molfavfy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7MolFAvFY.png og:image:alt: Why DoorDash is rebuilding its engineering interviews around AI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why DoorDash is rebuilding its engineering interviews around AI **[Doordash](https://daily.dev/sources/doordash)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary DoorDash has replaced traditional algorithmic coding interviews with 60-minute AI-assisted engineering working sessions. Candidates use their own machine, preferred IDE, and AI tools like Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex to work on realistic tasks resembling actual DoorDash engineering work. The format evaluates production-relevant skills: navigating unfamiliar codebases, making pragmatic tradeoffs, handling ambiguity, validating outputs rigorously, and communicating reasoning. Lessons from pilots include keeping project scope small enough for meaningful work within the time limit, setting clear expectations upfront, and training interviewers to assess workflow rather than just output correctness. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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