Taboola Software Engineer interview experience

After the initial stage, I was given a fairly long company computer test that lasted around four hours. The task was to implement a clock using threads and a concurrent hashmap for loading a file.

Then I had to count word occurrences, with the words acting as keys and their frequencies as values. The whole exercise felt like a real engineering-style challenge rather than a short puzzle, and while it was difficult in its own way, it was clear what they were measuring—concurrency handling plus basic data processing. I didn’t end up getting an offer, but the experience was concrete and tied