Submitted my resume through my campus career center.

I was contacted about two weeks later by a recruiter with an interview slot on campus. When I walked into the room, the first thing my interviewer did was give me a coding problem that was described on a sheet of paper. He told me to read it and solve it on the whiteboard. I was surprised by this because there's usually a bit of introduction and behavioral questions at the start.

I took a couple of minutes to read it and jot down some notes, then started drawing some examples on the whiteboard and talking through different approaches. As I was talking, he didn't really look up from the computer and it didn't really seem like he was listening. I started to get annoyed by this, but I kept talking and started coding. I ended up running out of time at the end, but if I had about 3 more minutes, I would have finished. I got a rejection email a few days later.

Overall, I am very disappointed by the process. I heard that Thumbtack was a fun place to work with a great culture, but it seems like during the interview, the only thing they cared about was whether I could code and solve the problem. They didn't seem like they wanted to get to know me at all, and the interviewer was very cold during the entire process. The recruiter was very friendly though, but based on my experience during this interview, Thumbtack doesn't seem like somewhere I'd want to work.

Coding question, can't disclose.