The Trade Desk reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(616 total reviews)
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Jeff Green

75% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

The Trade Desk has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 616 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The The Trade Desk employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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616 reviews
3.0
Nov 2, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- The pay is good, the stock is great, and the benefits are good. - Great company outlook - Most people are really smart and hard working - Work/life balance ebbs and flows but on the most part is okay - Beautiful offices - Jeff is a visionary and a silver tongue which is great for motivating people. In terms of representing the company to the market, I've never seen a better CEO. - The Customer Service team is integral to the company and a great resource for product and marketing. That is probably the best team to join.

Cons

As a woman, TTD is a little like being in the movie Stepford Wives. As long as you drink the Koolaid, are always supportive, and don't really express your opinions things are lovely. If you value your voice or customer research, then this may not be the company for you. Jeff is a visionary, but also a benevolent dictator who is surrounded by yes men. Smart, white, yes men. Good ole boy culture. There is always one token women on the C-suite who starts out as the darling and then after about a year, mysteriously disappears and is replaced with the new woman of the day. Most managers are scared of Jeff and the C-Suite, and have little say into how their teams are run. Managers who speak up are let go. Most get frustrated and it ends up being taken out on their team. The culture can be quite toxic and very political, so if you come here - get ready to play the game and play it really well. Especially if you are on the Marketing team.

2.0
Feb 15, 2019

An honest review

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Top of the line benefits (medical, dental, 401k, stock) Free snacks and food Ventura is beautiful-close to the beach

Cons

NO work life balance NO flexibility NO “real” HR Too many cliques

1.0
Feb 21, 2019

Cliques, bullies, unequal pay for women, no HR

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits, stock, healthcare, global company

Cons

Extremely clique Horrible HR Mistreatment of employees Incompetent leadership The Trade Desk can be really good for some people, and really bad for others, depending on how you play the game. In most offices, there is a clique that runs the office, and if you get in with them you’re golden. TTD hides the cliqueness by calling it ‘culture.’ If you’re part of it you’ll be given promotions, HR complaints lodged against you will be ignored, and you won’t have to work hard. There are some truly evil people protected by these groups, and I’ve seen many people in my office bullied by them. If you aren’t part of that group, your life can be absolute hell. It’s high school all over again, except you’re financially punished for it because you’ll miss out on clients/career opportunities by not being friends with these people. HR is tiny and doesn’t even have people in most offices. There are too many people that have gone to HR with complaints of things that are blatantly illegal or horribly wrong, and HR just tries to shut them up and they don’t do anything. If they go to your managers, they just try to shut them up and advise them that the best way to get ahead is to feign happiness. There a absolutely miserable people here just trying to smile to get that next promotion. Women aren’t treated equally. The CEO essentially acknowledge that pay is unequal across the company last year and that they don’t have a plan of fixing it. A lot of managers were given their jobs because they got here early, or were friends with the right people. This goes all the way up to the top where there are some people that everyone knows are incompetent, but are kept around for cultural aspects, when in reality they just bully people in their own offices and don’t do work.

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