TTD·Software Engineer

TD Software Engineer interview experience

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Toronto, ONPosted Nov 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

This interview was for a software role inside a child company under TD, and it started with a whiteboard session.

Two interviewers with math/algorithm backgrounds introduced an algorithmic problem and asked me to solve it with the best possible time complexity.

The focus was very much on how I would reason the approach and drive toward the lowest O time complexity, not on small talk or general software anecdotes. It felt challenging in the way algorithm questions always do—once you’re at the board, you can’t hide behind buzzwords.

I didn’t receive an offer. Still, I respected the clarity of what they were evaluating: problem-solving depth and efficiency, and whether I could translate an idea into a

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