The Trade Desk Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Aug 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started out looking pretty normal: I was scheduled for two technical interviews, one behavioral, and a system design interview.

Up until the last slot, everything felt manageable and I felt like I was doing well on the first two technical rounds.

Then, late in the schedule, the system design slot got swapped to a technical interview because of interviewer availability. I ended up solving a LeetCode-style hard problem under pressure with someone who had been handed the task at the last minute. I had been preparing for system design, and that switch threw me off; I got nervous and it noticeably affected how I reasoned through the problem. To make it harder, the interviewer’s tone came across as condescending from the

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