Thumbtack·Software Engineer

Thumbtack Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Oct 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied online and started with a code challenge as the first round.

It was hard but doable with the time they gave, and I moved on. The next step was a technical phone interview where I laid out two approaches, but I couldn’t nail how to handle edge cases. The interviewer didn’t seem very interested or helpful, and it felt like they were reading off a prompt rather than reacting to what I was thinking.

After that, I received a rejection letter that felt rude and unhelpful. The whole experience left me with a clear sense that communication and support mattered more than I expected, and I never got the chance to recover from the edge-case gap the way I hoped.

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