Truly a remote-first company now with a great work-life balance.
There is a weeklong company shutdown over Christmas and one week in the summer.
The engineering culture is collaborative and focused on continuous improvement. Everyone is always willing to help others.
There is lots of room for career growth, but you have to be proactive about it.
Thumbtack is great about communication and has to be one of the most transparent companies that exists.
Oh, and pay and benefits are right up there with tier 1 tech companies!
The wokeness and focus on diversity and inclusion are mostly genuine efforts, but can be tiresome at times.
Thumbtack is already diverse with a great culture. A lot of the 'People' efforts seem like distracting solutions looking for problems that don't exist.
Keep doing what you are doing and making decisions based on data and feedback!
As we continue to refine our product, engineering will need to shift more resources to ensuring quality rather than speed of feature buildout.
The recruiter was very nice and to the point. They set up the phone interview quickly. After asking typical questions about my background, they gave me a question that was rated as hard in LeetCode. (I looked it up after the interview.) There was no
A recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn. They were very formal during the initial interview and discussed the entire interview process, offering suggestions. Initial round: A coding interview with easy LeetCode-style questions. I was underprepare
Usual Software Engineering interview process. First, I had a call with a recruiter to discuss roles. 1 telephonic round. LC question. It was not straightforward; it was not an usual array or tree question. Basic data structure concepts had to be ap
The recruiter was very nice and to the point. They set up the phone interview quickly. After asking typical questions about my background, they gave me a question that was rated as hard in LeetCode. (I looked it up after the interview.) There was no
A recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn. They were very formal during the initial interview and discussed the entire interview process, offering suggestions. Initial round: A coding interview with easy LeetCode-style questions. I was underprepare
Usual Software Engineering interview process. First, I had a call with a recruiter to discuss roles. 1 telephonic round. LC question. It was not straightforward; it was not an usual array or tree question. Basic data structure concepts had to be ap