The DoorDash recruiter reached out a month after having applied to the role. There were 4 stages to the interview process. They were as follows: 1. Recruiter screen 2. Zoom interview with the hiring manager 3. Assignment/case study, which shouldn’t take more than “5 hours” (if the project knocked the hiring manager’s socks off), you’d move to 4. A panel interview I went through the entirety of the interview process. A week and a half of silence goes by, post the panel interview. I followed up with the recruiter (earlier in the week for an update) and I got nothing. I received an automated email stating that the team and decided to move forward with another candidate. The recruiter didn’t have the courtesy to provide a personalized response to my follow-up email? The lack of communication during the interview process was definitely a red flag for me. It left me feeling like a number vs a human with a beating heart and a brain. But with the constant org shifts and turnover, who’d want to work for them anyway? I definitely dodged a bullet.