I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Thumbtack in Jun 2024
No offer
Negative experience
Average interview
Application
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Thumbtack (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
The recruiter reached out to me and sent a coding challenge. I completed it and sent it back the next day. I then had two phone interviews after that. Both were pretty easy if you are well prepared. Then came the onsite interviews. They were medium to difficult interviews. One of the interviewers was very rude and kept cutting me off and gave me off handish answers. The interviewer clearly did not want to be there. The recruiter mentioned they respond with feedback pretty soon but that is not the case. My overall experience was very unpleasant.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Phone - Streaming median and dictionary related problems
Why Thumbtack, algorithms and data structure related questions. Practise Leetcode and you should be able to do well.
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.
Interview questions [1]
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.
