Thumbtack·Software Engineer

Thumbtack Software Engineer interview experience

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Berkeley, CAPosted Jan 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview journey felt pretty “calibrated” from the beginning.

A recruiter reached out, discussed the roles, and scheduled a technical phone screen that centered on my past project experience with some technical discussion. After that, I moved into a full onsite day where the rounds felt connected by theme: each technical conversation started with some non-technical or culture-oriented framing, then went straight into a technical question.

Onsite, I went through multiple panels—four rounds of interviews along with a lunch interview. The technical work was a mix of system design and live coding/system-style problem solving and algorithm questions, and

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