Thumbtack·Software Engineer

Thumbtack Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

California, MDPosted Aug 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went into the process thinking I was interviewing for an Android developer role, but the actual interview barely touched anything Android-related.

Instead, I met with someone from a team where the work was backend-focused.

The conversation and the coding task centered on building a data class and implementing functions to retrieve client data. I spent time working through that, and it didn’t connect to the mobile expectations I had from the job title. I wasn’t asked any Android-specific questions at all, which made the mismatch stand out immediately.

In the end, I didn’t feel like I was evaluated for what the role sounded like on paper. The part that surprised me most was how completely the interview content diverged from what I

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