Thumbtack·Software Engineer

Thumbtack Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

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

I didn’t go through a traditional interview at all.

Instead, I was handed a home task, which immediately gave me a bad impression. Giving a take-home assignment felt unprofessional to me in this context—more like something done when they need to evaluate whether someone can code at all, or when the rest of the interview experience is already mixed.

What threw me off most was the sense that the task wasn’t really probing my fit so much as getting me to build something that would be useful to them. I left the experience feeling like I was doing work without a real conversation, and that the process didn’t connect to what I’d expect from a

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