The Trade Desk Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Irvine, CAPosted Oct 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a brief conversation with HR, I skipped meeting anyone else and was pushed straight into a take-home test.

My gut told me no at the time, especially because I’d seen things that suggested the workplace might not fit me.

The take-home itself had a single problem that was intentionally vague, and there were a lot of elements left unsaid. I felt like I’d be judged harshly on interpretations rather than on the correctness of the solution as I understood it. Language choice also mattered in a weird way: I picked C++ because it wasn’t inherently hard, but they apparently didn’t know it well enough, and I got dinged for something that I believed I had already provided. It also felt like the problem

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