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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

October 1, 2018
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Process

Initial phone screen with the usual technical questions (leetcode) and a few questions about past experience. Then moved on to the on-site interview.

On-site was pretty standard. Full day of interviews with four different interviewers plus a lunch interview. The office was really nice, and so was the lunch (gourmet food cooked in-house). The interviews were:

  • Two tech interviews (coding on a laptop)
  • One design interview (whiteboarding)
  • One casual lunch interview (experience, culture fit, etc.)

Post on-site, I heard back from the recruiter within a few days. Overall, the process was pretty smooth and professional, just like you would expect from a high-quality tech company that is trying to expand.

Questions

Coding interviews were LeetCode-like (e.g., tree/graph traversal, hashmaps, etc).

Design questions were quite broad and open-ended. There was a lot of good discussion around software architecture, data consistency, geo-redundancy, failure scenarios, etc.

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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.