The Trade Desk Software Engineer interview experience

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Ventura, CAPosted Jan 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a 1:1 get-to-know-you conversation where I asked questions about the company and we talked through what I cared about.

After that I received a take-home coding assignment, and I understood it would be used directly in later interview steps. I was allowed to use the language of my choice and I took my time, coding between work hours.

A couple days later, I had a follow-up conversation focused on expanding the coding work—basically deeper thinking around what I’d written. About a week after the assignment, I went through in-person interviews at headquarters, plus additional remote interviews that were more about how I’d communicate and collaborate with a distributed team. The whole loop felt deliberate and

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