The Trade Desk Software Engineer interview experience

First there was a brief conversation where they talked about what they were doing and the types of challenges they were running into. Then they gave me a take-home code assignment that matched the work they were describing.

There was no time limit attached to it, which made it feel less like an exam and more like a chance to show how I actually built solutions. I didn’t end up receiving an offer, but it felt like a straightforward way to assess my coding rather than a long sequence of whiteboard rounds.