Thumbtack·Software Engineer

Thumbtack Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

San Francisco, CAPosted Aug 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

A recruiter reached out to me by email first, and after I said I was interested, we did a phone call to cover basics and questions.

Once I decided to move forward, I was sent an online assignment to do on my own time. I worked on it for a couple hours one night and turned it in.

After a couple days, they said they liked it and scheduled a phone screen with an engineer. The interviewer who actually joined the call wasn’t the person they’d indicated beforehand, but the technical question felt like something straight out of common interview prep—similar to those well-known cracking-the-coding-interview style problems. I told him I was familiar with it and still walked through the solution. The coding part felt like it went

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