Behavioral phone interview, then a coding challenge on Codesignal. I am a little disappointed in myself; I definitely felt like I could've aced the test. I got stuck on the second question and found myself panicking.

What didn't help was that these questions had super long, ACT-style essay prompts. So, there was a lot of information in there, and I found myself having a hard time navigating for specific information I wasn't sure of.

I decided to navigate to the final question, which again was a very long essay-style prompt. That took out another chunk of my time, as I had to read it many, many times to make sure I understood everything.

At this point, I didn't have a lot of time left, so I proceeded to return to the second question, which I fixed the failing test cases and passed all test cases.

Unfortunately, I had 5 minutes left and didn't get to a point where I had a solution on the third question.

While I am always a little apprehensive about doing coding challenges as opposed to getting the opportunity to code with an engineer, as I do prefer the human interaction, I liked the fact that these questions were very applicable to what a day at Thumbtack might look like versus the silly coding questions one often gets typically asked on these challenges.

So, I have no hard feelings about this because of the applicable questions. I just wish I had the opportunity to prove myself more beyond this coding challenge, as Thumbtack looks like a really great company to work for.

The behavioral interview was pretty standard, asking why you applied to Thumbtack, etc., etc. I'm not going to disclose the interview questions, but on a LeetCode equivalent, I would say two LeetCode mediums and a LeetCode hard. I cannot stress enough to read the prompts very carefully, as it's very reminiscent of the ACT Reading test: everything you need is included in there, but they are each like very long essays.