Is The Trade Desk a good place for work?
Just finished the interview process with them and got positive feedback from recruiter, will move to the offer details very soon. I cannot find many information around this company in the internet, saw a few good reviews and bad reviews in Blind. Try to get more ideas for: - Tech stack. - WLB. - Benefit. - Career growth. - Work culture. Another concern is the current stock price, I don't have much expertises but: Their current stock price is 66 and the company value is 32B, which seems to be extremely high compared to their yearly revenue 1.2B (2021). In comparison, Meta's value is 450B and yearly revenue is 117B (2021). I understand that their yearly growth is around 30%, even assuming they are able to keep this speed, the company value still seems to be high. Anyone can share some ideas/experience on this? Thanks! YOE: 7 TC: 350 (Joined current company last year, stock price is half now) #tech #thetradedesk #stock #company #companyculture
microsoft stack
Thanks, that's for technical stack? Never worked in microsoft, is this a good point or bad point?
Yea whole stack requires you work on Microsoft Windows because they’re not fully migrated to .NET Core (which would allow transitioning to a Linux/Unix environment). They’re currently migrating but it’ll be a few years before they finish. For now the tech stack is fully C#/.NET/Microsoft.
Got an offer as well, had few informal chats with managers and from what I understand tech stacks depends on teams but most of it is C# + Azure + team specific stuff (talked with a team where they also do Scala and Spark) WLB not really sure, from the chats I've understand that they have big ambitions but don't have enough engineers (bad sign?), but again they have those recharge days, once per month non stackable so yeah not sure there They also seems to work on massive scale, I guess from growth perspective it should be alright And culture seems great, but I don't work there so I can't confirm
Thanks, may I ask did you take the offer finally?
Why didn’t you take their offer?
Thanks for your insight, how do you think about the growth opportunity of the company regarding the macro environment and privacy impact for Ads tech? Do you see the company could continue grow the same speed as previous years? (>30%)
Could I dm for referral to TTD? Please
Hi! Tech stack will vary to the team, but mostly C#. There is more Golang and some low level depending on the team. For infrastructure we need to deploy across 4+ cloud providers so it will vary as well. Benefit one big things is the vacation time + 1 PTO every month and also ESPP with look back 2 years strating the time you joined. Career growth is defined, what is expected for each level, etc... WLB cannot comment on that since it will be according to the team, mine is pretty chill. We also have on calls. I like the culture and feel engaged. Learning more about TTD you will learn on how much more we still have to grow (just started with China and India e.g). And yeah stock is overpriced.
"ESPP with look back 2 years strating the time you joined" what exactly does this eman? Please explain in laymen terms :-)
Let's say you enroll on the ESPP program January 1st 2022. By January 1st 2024 you can look at the lowest trailing price up to January 1st 2022. You can ask a recruiter for a better explained documentation. I think they should be able to provide it to you. Ps.: You have to hold the purchased stocks at least 6 months. Companies like Square/block allow you to sell it right away
To clarify, it is not a lookback to the lowest price on any day within 2 years. For espp, there are 2 prices for 2 specific dates of the year. Your espp price is the lowest of the current + last 4 after your start date.
I know someone who found Amazon very boring, and who now works at The Trade Desk, and likes it a lot more. But I also would be interested in hearing other opinions.
Thanks, do you know the reasons why they likes it a lot?