The Trade Desk Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

Santa Barbara, CAPosted Jul 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied through LinkedIn and got an early coding challenge right away that was described as easy.

Passing that led to a take-home exercise where the requirements were a little abstract, but the engineers were responsive when I tried to clarify what they meant.

After the take-home stage, I moved into interviews that were more about communication than algorithm gymnastics: I had a behavioral phone conversation and then a non-technical interview. The whole process felt like it was trying to balance a written technical project with discussions about how I think and how I present myself.

I didn’t receive an offer. What I remember most was how the technical part wasn’t exactly “guess the

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