Thumbtack·Software Engineer

Thumbtack Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

San Francisco, CAPosted Oct 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a campus-centered process where I was contacted about two weeks after submitting my resume.

When I walked into the room, the interviewer immediately handed me a sheet of paper with a coding problem and told me to solve it on the whiteboard. There wasn’t much of an introduction or any behavioral lead-in.

I took a couple minutes to read and jot notes, then started drawing examples and working through approaches out loud. As I talked and coded, the interviewer mostly didn’t look up and didn’t seem actively engaged or listening, which annoyed me quickly. I ended up running out of time right at the end—if I’d had about three more minutes, I think I would’ve finished.

A few days later I

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