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Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - United States

September 1, 2017
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied online through their website and got an email asking me to take a HackerRank challenge about a week later with a semi-personalized email from a recruiter.

The HackerRank wasn't that tricky: implement a very basic key-value database with rollback support.

They gave two weeks to do the HackerRank, but stated the expectation was that I would finish it within 2-3 hours (which I did).

A few days after I submitted, they denied me over email.

As far as I'm aware, I met all of the stated runtime complexity requirements. I passed all of the provided test cases, and I also did some manual testing to ensure correctness. So, I'm confused as to why I got rejected.

Questions

Create a key-value database that supports transactions and rollbacks.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 14 interview experiences for the Thumbtack Software Engineer (Internship) role in United States.

Success Rate

21%
Pass Rate

Thumbtack's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive64%
Neutral14%
Negative21%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Thumbtack's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in United States.