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The questions were all very standard mgr interview except for the math portion. For that they asked a series progression question, (find formula for doubling a value each iteration), and then they asked how a person with ancient greek level of technology could computer the distance from the earth to the moon. They wanted an actual answer and to be successful it had to be within 5x of the actual value.
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Sr. Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Zoox

3.5
Mar 14, 2024

The questions were all very standard mgr interview except for the math portion. For that they asked a series progression question, (find formula for doubling a value each iteration), and then they asked how a person with ancient greek level of technology could computer the distance from the earth to the moon. They wanted an actual answer and to be successful it had to be within 5x of the actual value.

Overwhelmingly the interview process was focused on how to solve CURRENT company problems, VALIDATE current architectural decisions, and otherwise attempt to extract as much consultation vs. interview as possible in the time allotted.
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Director of Data Engineering

Interviewed at Sprig

4.6
Jun 14, 2021

Overwhelmingly the interview process was focused on how to solve CURRENT company problems, VALIDATE current architectural decisions, and otherwise attempt to extract as much consultation vs. interview as possible in the time allotted.

Describe the architecture a project. The interviewer spent majority of time on challenging why my team built the service not the centralized data team. He just don't understand that each company and organization was set up differently. He was very assertive that storing and presenting data should come from one team. To save money, there was one optimization that I did to not save not-valuable data and he was not getting it to. He values data very much and wanted to store any data. Good luck DoorDash to have such mind set to blow off your budget.
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Software Engineering Manager

Interviewed at DoorDash

3.6
May 26, 2020

Describe the architecture a project. The interviewer spent majority of time on challenging why my team built the service not the centralized data team. He just don't understand that each company and organization was set up differently. He was very assertive that storing and presenting data should come from one team. To save money, there was one optimization that I did to not save not-valuable data and he was not getting it to. He values data very much and wanted to store any data. Good luck DoorDash to have such mind set to blow off your budget.

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