The Trade Desk

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

Bad experience: I was first informed that I had passed and then was rejected after a few days. The interviewer was inexperienced: they gave a very easy question which I completed quickly. They explicitly stated that pseudocode was fine, did not raise

Online Assessment, followed by a Hiring Manager interview that was System Design + Behavioral. Didn't pass that stage and 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