Thumbtack

Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

May 1, 2019

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

This was a 5-hour interview, which included mobile (Android) specific questions and an on-site social meal. I met with engineers at various levels and the recruiter. I used my own laptop for part of the review.

Questions

One of the questions was based on implementing the game Clue, in particular, detecting a winning guess.

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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.

Thumbtack Interview Questions

Vowel Spellchecker

Medium

Implement a spellchecker that corrects misspellings by considering both exact matches and variations where vowels may be incorrect or missing. Given a list of correctly spelled words (the wordlist) and a list of queries, return the corrected spelling for each query based on prioritized matching rules.

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