The Trade Desk Software Engineer interview experience

I was given two problems and only one hour to solve them in whatever language I wanted, and the session required both screen sharing and a camera. The whole thing felt high-pressure, mostly because the problems were genuinely hard and the time constraint made it hard to recover from any misstep.

What surprised me most was the contrast in tone across rounds. One interview felt pretty relaxed and friendly even though the questions were tough. I didn’t get the sense that whether I solved it or not was tied to their attitude toward me, which at least made the experience less demoralizing than I