Thumbtack·Software Engineer

Thumbtack Software Engineer interview experience

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San Francisco, CAPosted Mar 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with an online assignment, then moved into two rounds of phone interviews before I was invited onsite.

The onsite started with a short tour of the San Francisco office, and then the interviews ran pretty tightly through the rest of the day. I had a lunch meeting with my referral, and that lunch was genuinely memorable—great food and an easy way to get a feel for the people around the team.

The technical portion after lunch felt like it leaned heavily on coding work, and my momentum didn’t hold. I later got matched with a Codesignal-style coding challenge that used really long, essay-like prompts and multiple questions. I remember panicking when I got stuck early, and the amount of text made

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