Thumbtack·Software Engineer

Thumbtack Software Engineer interview experience

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Hard

Positive

United StatesPosted Feb 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a pretty collaborative, product-focused experience from the recruiter screen onward.

After initial contact, I moved into rounds that combined background chatting with coding questions over the phone, and I felt like the team was trying to understand what I was looking for rather than just running me through a checklist.

Once I got to the onsite, it turned into a full day with multiple interviewers, including lunch with an engineer. The onsite panels mixed programming challenges and a systems design question, plus a culture-fit discussion. The key pattern for me was that they expected me to actually produce working code rather than stopping at high-level pseudo ideas, and

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