The Trade Desk Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Jul 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got pulled into the process for the software engineer role with the expectation that I’d be working on a longer take-home exercise.

I started with a HackerRank test that felt related to counting sort—sorting a string by character. After I passed, there was a long silence and I had to follow up with an engineering lead to get the next assignment.

They gave me an n-way set associative cache build using Java, C#, or Python. The requirements clarification turned into a major bottleneck: even when I asked questions immediately, replies took around four business days and usually required multiple follow-ups. I even tried to ask whether we could meet briefly by phone or in person, but that question never got answered.

I ended

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