Thumbtack Software Engineer interview experience

I finished the basic implementation in roughly 80 minutes, right around the upper end of what they implied it would take. Then I ended up spending many more hours building a self-balancing binary tree because the built-in option they suggested didn’t seem like it would perform well enough, and I found that really frustrating—like the wording might have oversold what was required.

A few days after I submitted it, they asked to schedule a phone interview. The call felt pretty standard, and I liked the interviewer; he also handled my questions about the company well, and one part of his coding