The Trade Desk Software Engineer interview experience

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Irvine, CAPosted Aug 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a slow start with recruiters mainly sending template-like updates, things accelerated once I had a call with the hiring manager.

Then I got my first real technical task.

The screening problem was an N-way set associative cache with customizable replacement strategies. They gave what felt like a month to solve it, but with a message like “don’t spend too much time,” which made the expectations feel a little conflicting. It turned out to be open ended with a lot of details, so it ended up taking a couple evenings just to get something industry-grade, and then more time to add documentation and tests.

After I finished, I had a phone call with one of their engineers who had to walk through the code with me since he

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