Thumbtack·Software Engineer

Thumbtack Software Engineer interview experience

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San Francisco, CAPosted Feb 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I first went through a phone interview with a recruiter, and afterward she sent a HackerRank coding exercise that sounded like the same one everyone had received: build a simple database.

I completed the exercise and submitted it, but I was rejected.

What bothered me was the lack of feedback. I didn’t follow up to ask what went wrong, and later I realized that might have been a mistake, especially since I couldn’t tell whether the issue was the approach, an edge condition, or something small. Separately, another attempt had a similar flow where I was given two weeks to complete an in-memory database challenge with commands like set, get, rollback, and commit, and then I was told they were proceeding with another candidate without any feedback on my submission.

Overall, I

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