The Trade Desk Software Engineer interview experience

It began with an HR Skype screen, then I had an hour interview at their office in Sydney that leaned easier. After that I received a take-home coding task with no time limit, followed by a review discussion over Skype.

From there, it escalated into multiple rounds of technical interviews with senior engineers in the US—several 2-hour segments, each broken down into back-to-back interviews with different senior interviewers. Across all of it, the questions leaned heavily on algorithms and on talking through solutions while working with an interviewer, not just producing an answer. I also got