What it does: Doordash uses technology to connect restaurants and consumers for seamless food delivery.
Mission: Doordash aims to empower communities by creating new ways for people to work, earn, and grow.
Size and Presence: Doordash offers superior food delivery services supported by around 6,000 employees and 50+ locations in Canada.
Best Known For: Doordash is best known for its use of technology and advanced value propositions to become a market leader in Canada.
The good bits: Doordash is rapidly growing thanks to its team spirit and positive environment.
The not-so-good bits: Doordash as a rapidly growing company requires employees to adapt to changing dynamics.
Doordash was founded in January 2013 by Tony Xu, Stanley Tang, Andy Fang, and Evan Moore and was launched as PaloAltoDelivery.com. In the summer of 2013, PaloAltoDelivery received $120,000 in seed money from Y Combinator for a 7% stake.
PaloAltoDelivery became Doordash in June 2013. They continued to improve their technology, becoming the second-placed food delivery sales company in the United States.
By 2015, Doordash expanded to the international market, launching in Toronto. Currently, Doordash is available in more than 50 Canadian cities, constantly expanding its operations with cutting-edge technology daily.
Doordash embraces a unique set of values that guide the way they work, everything they create, and the choices they make. All employees at Doordash are leaders and embody qualities that help them take responsibility and help others.
Doordash believes that all employees must be dreamers and be willing to turn small ideas into winning ones. To support employees and their dreams, Doordash breeds a positive work environment where optimism is the only choice.
In a fast-paced world, Doordash launches solutions, tests them, and makes changes where necessary. Doordash pays keen attention to all facets of the organization so employees can be sure they are best-taken care of.
In a dynamic world, there are two constants in Doordash’s recruitment; equal employment opportunities and an all-inclusive recruitment process. Doordash’s recruitment process focuses on building skills, a winning work culture, and giving employees a feeling of family.
Doordash’s recruitment commences with graduates and interns creating a tailored resume, choosing a programming language, and preparing for coding interviews.
All submitted resumes are considered and ones that meet the minimum requirements are shortlisted for interviews. Doordash graduates and interns undertake around 8 interview rounds.
The first set of interviews include:
These interviews prepare graduates and internship applicants for on-site personalized interviews.
Graduate and internship applicants that complete the first set of interviews are invited for on-site interviews. The on-site interviews include:
After completing all interview rounds, Doordash’s hiring team makes a hiring decision. Shortlisted graduate and internship candidates are then offered employment and onboarded with Doordash’s best practices.
Every opportunity to join Doordash is always exciting as they take pride in churning out talents to change how business is done worldwide. They place graduates and interns in high-performing teams that’ll keep them up to speed with the fast pace of the company by teaching them the best practices for their roles.
As a career-defining place to work, Doordash helps employees align their passion with a career path to help them grow exponentially. Doordash also offers career flexibility to help graduates and interns take ownership of their lives so they can work in a way that suits them.
From sales to IT associates, working at Doordash is always a relieving experience that promises boundless growth.
Software engineers at Doordash earn CA$124,750 per year and accounting executives are paid CA$93,575 annually. Business analysts and designers at Doordash are paid CA$80,000 and CA$73,500 per year respectively. Junior data analysts at Doordash earn CA$47,095 per year while project managers are paid CA$45,000 per year. Data analysts at Doordash are paid CA$112,926 per year and interns earn CA$71,583 per year.
As with every operation at the company, employees are at the heart of social contributions at the company. They allow employees to choose charities they wish to support and help them support those employees.
Doordash also donates to organizations that address social issues like hunger, social justice, and empowerment. In 2021, they donated about $1,000,000 to nonprofits and charities.
In 2019, Doordash suffered a major security breach where over 4.9 million users, drivers, and merchants had their personal information stolen. Doordash refused to put a number to the number of Canadian users affected by this breach.
Doordash claimed the hackers did not get enough information to make fraudulent charges or withdrawals. They also encouraged users to change their passwords while they tightened security around the company