I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Thumbtack in Oct 2017
Interview
Recruiters have poor communication, very slow to respond, and very unprofessional. All communication with them had generic automated responses, and will cancel on you last minute (positions filled up already). I felt like I was wasting my time talking and waiting for them to respond all the time.
Engineers are friendly during interviews, and are enjoyable to talk with. Solving the coding questions were fairly simple, and they will provide some hints/guiding questions if needed.
Process [New Grad]: HackerRank -> 2x phone screens -> onsite (canceled)
Spell Checker - implement a spell checker that returns the correct word for an input word. Given a dictionary of correct words as input. Correct for capitalization and vowels in input word
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Thumbtack in June 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 July 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.
