Thumbtack·Frontend Engineer

Thumbtack Frontend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

San Francisco, CAPosted Jan 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with an online application and then was contacted to set up a brief phone interview.

The interviewer called almost ten minutes late and sounded like he was distracted. The very first thing he asked was what questions I had for him, and it was clear he didn’t have much he planned to ask me in return, so I filled the remaining time with as many questions as I could.

After that call, I was given a take-home coding challenge. It ended up being the kind of work that eats into your schedule fast, and I remember feeling annoyed because the effort didn’t seem aligned with respect for how much time candidates were investing. When they moved forward after the challenge, the whole

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