Thumbtack Software Engineer interview experience

The recruiter explained that because I’d applied before and already finished a coding challenge in that earlier process, I wouldn’t have to do it again. The phone interview itself felt standard and straightforward, and I moved on from there.

Soon after, I was invited onsite to their HQ in San Francisco. The onsite schedule was a mix of technical interviews and a lunch interview: one technical interview first, then a lunch conversation, followed by three more one-hour technical interviews. Each interviewer started by asking me to talk through a project I’d worked on, usually something you