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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

March 1, 2018
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Process

Very structured interview process with great turnaround times. My interview process with them lasted for less than 2 weeks, and I had the result of my final round delivered to me the very next day after my final round.

Interview process started with a standard phone screen. There were two interviewers on the line, with one shadowing and one interacting and asking questions. We went through two coding questions, on the easy side in terms of difficulty levels. It required basic knowledge of the Map data structure.

Onsite had 5 rounds, which started with System Design, then a coding round with interaction about past projects and the technology stack that you have worked with. Then, a break and an informal chat with an interviewer around what the product is about and the company culture, etc. The next two rounds were coding again, where you had to come up with running programs built from scratch. They didn't enforce OOP concepts while writing programs, but they needed running code, and the questions were more real-world problems, like designing a calendar with update, delete, and edit event functionality, etc.

Questions

How would you design a todo list with reminder functionality? And other questions around similar lines.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 38 interview experiences for the Thumbtack Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

47%
Pass Rate

Thumbtack's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive66%
Neutral8%
Negative26%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Thumbtack's Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.