Thumbtack·Software Engineer

Thumbtack Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Sep 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got pulled in through their website process and was emailed a HackerRank about a week later, with a semi-personalized note from a recruiter.

The challenge was fairly direct: implement a basic key-value database with rollback support. They gave me two weeks to complete it, but the expectation they described was that I could finish in about two to three hours, and I did.

After I submitted, I heard back in a few days with a rejection. It was confusing because I felt like I met the stated runtime complexity requirements, passed all the provided test cases, and even did some manual testing to confirm correctness.

I ended up leaving that process honestly scratching my head. The technical work felt like it aligned with what they asked

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