PM Culture @ DoorDash?

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Hey all -- nearing the offer stage at DoorDash and am curious about PM culture. I've heard some negative things about the company overall, but many of those comments were fairly old and not from PMs.

I'm currently an L5 PM @ Google. Been here 5 years and am pretty tired of constant mismanagement and risk aversion. DoorDash is also offering a nice comp bump.

What does everyone think?

NotableProtein · Accepted Answer

I'm in engineering at DD. My experience working with DD PMs has been terrible. We're never included in things like brainstorming, initial project scoping, and estimation. Every PRD/BRD I've received has been incomplete to the point where the acceptance criteria is non existent. As a result, kicking off a project is a nightmare task of trying to extrapolate business logic from these poorly constructed documents and figma designs (not poorly constructed, but just not a good way to convey this information).

Perhaps you think that this won't be you, but I can't imagine every single PM that we hire is incompetent. We have our share of former Googlers and Amazonians. I can only assume it's related to top down pressure from our truly incompetent leadership team.

Just my two cents.

ZTrope90 · Answer

I don't have insight into DD specifically, but I'd obviously recommend trying to hash out some of those details while you can. I also haven't heard great things about DD, but if your concerns are around mismanagement and risk aversion, now would be a good time to talk to your recruiter or hiring manager about that. Usually you can ask for an informational call with the HM to dig more into the team and specifics

19g617l4iktw60 · Answer

Following, a DoorDash recruiter reached out to me and I also heard negative things in the past about them.

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