Thumbtack·Frontend Engineer

Thumbtack Frontend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

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

A recruiter contacted me through LinkedIn and after I replied, I had a phone screen with the recruiter.

He sent a link to a code challenge, and once I submitted my code, the development team sent back feedback and basically told me I wasn’t a good fit.

The feedback was mostly fair and objective, but there was one comment that really got under my skin—something along the lines of an “HTML is a DIV wonderland” remark—and I remember feeling a bit of tension when it was written. It also felt like they were going to scrutinize every detail, so I ended up putting in a lot of time to get things polished to a high standard. Even after spending hours, there wasn’t any guarantee of moving to another

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