I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at The Trade Desk (London, England) in Oct 2017
Interview
Phone call with the recruiter, then received a 1 month code challenge to develop a caching library through hackerrank.
You receive a very vague description of the exercise, and they're expecting you to ask questions. Not asking questions can get you disqualified on it's own.
Don't try to sound too smart in questions or in your solution by implementing more than what's asked, depending on who's interviewing you this can be big factor against you.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement an n-way set associative cache with support for LRU and MRU in C#, Java or Python.
I applied online. I interviewed at The Trade Desk (Singapore) in Feb 2026
Interview
1. Applied Online.
2. Received/Completed Hackerrank Online Assessment.
3. Recruiter call about the role, salary expectations and leveling -- expecting next technical interview
4. One week later recruiter reached out that the role has been filled.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at The Trade Desk in Sept 2025
Interview
Online Assessment, followed by a Hiring Manager interview that was System Design + Behavioral. Didn't pass that stage, was not given a reason, but I assume it was the system design portion. Next stage would have been a loop (2 coding + 1 system design).
I interviewed at The Trade Desk (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
- recruiter
- hiring manager chat about exp
- coding screen
- onsite
Overall pretty standard interview and good experience hence why i joined. interviews were collaborative and practical rather than obscure algorithms