I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Thumbtack in Jan 2015
Interview
Applied online. Recruiter quickly responded and setup a call where he described the position and I gave my background. The next step was to do the coding challenge - create an in memory DB. They recommend 30mins to 90mins on it, but I spent about 3hours, just being thorough and making sure everything was correct.
A week later a technical phone screen was scheduled. Interviewer asked me to describe a technical challenge I had faced, and then asked me to code a solution to a question on a shared document. The question wasn't too difficult. After I coded the solution, he added a few requirements and asked me to code those up. As soon as I got it working, interviewer basically said "Great! Awesome!" and moved on. He never really asked follow up questions or wanted me to discuss my implementation or ways to improve it or anything,
I got my rejection email the next day. I was a bit surprised since I felt my solution to the coding question was good and the interviewer seemed fine with it. I didn't receive any feedback on why I was rejected either. I was also a bit frustrated because initial coding challenge that I did was never brought up at all, so I felt like I had kind of wasted some time doing it. I will say that everyone (all the recruiters, coordinators, interviewers) were super nice, and they were efficient and timely in letting me know about their decision.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Thumbtack in Jun 2024
Interview
One round of recruiter call, the recruiter rescheduled the call 5 times (not exaggerating). when we finally got on the call he sounded unenthusiastic about the company, lots of sighs, even said that he's already in a friday mood (it was a wednesday). Asked me about what I knew about the company, I gave him a high level description, he made fun of me for not giving detailed enough info and not doing my research before the interview.. overall he came of as rude. will not be moving forward with them. He also seemed very stuck on the leveling of the position, this could be a good thing but I've never had a recruiter needing me to have the exact title from my last company, as far as I know, these titles mean different things at different companies.
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Question 1
What did you know about the company, describe what has been `keeping you busy`
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Thumbtack in Jul 2023
Interview
The entire interview process was straightforward and efficient. The recruiter was thorough in explaining the nuances of the role and steps of the interview process during our initial call. After the technical interview (online challenge via Hackerrank), he prepped me for the virtual onsite and made sure I felt confident and prepared. (I'm interviewing at several different companies and many of them don't even offer a prep call or guidance along the way.) This left me with a really positive impression about Thumbtack overall. I didn't receive an offer, but my experience throughout the process was positive and the recruiter said he would let me know if they other roles open where I might be a better fit, which I appreciated. Keeping my fingers crossed to hear from them in the future.
I interviewed at Thumbtack (South San Francisco, CA)
Interview
Not great. Would not recommend applying to this company but do so at your own risk. Person interviewing me seemed nice though. They did not seem to know what they wanted from me as an engineer.
