The Trade Desk Software Engineer interview experience

I zoomed in for a 45-minute company lecture—whiteboard included—and I sat through it quietly without much interaction. The whole thing felt like a pass-through rather than an evaluation.

Afterward, the conversation shifted briefly to me talking about a project I’d worked on, and then it ended. Not long after, the recruiter replied that they’d decided not to move forward because they had limited headcount in Colorado.

What threw me off was how minimal the process was compared to what I’d expected, and how quickly they posted new jobs on LinkedIn afterward. In the end, I didn’t receive an