The Trade Desk Software Engineer interview experience

I was told I’d get feedback at the end, which set a clear expectation for me.

Some parts of the interview loop were better organized than others. I felt a couple of interviewers were strong, but the system design interview was rough—there was a poor communication style that made it genuinely difficult to talk through solutions. I spent a lot of time there, and by the time I finished all the interviews, I still got no feedback at all. It also added frustration that the interviewer process didn’t seem to respect my time, and it was hard to understand the rationale when they wouldn’t even share