What can I expect for the first technical phone screen? How was your experience interviewing?
I had a poor experience interviewing with Thumbtack. The dev who was conducting my interview had zero interest and sounded like he was reading off a prompt. He offered no help and just waited out the clock for me to either get the answer or fail.
Awh man, I’m sorry to hear that. That’s never a fun experience to have. Would you mind sharing what the question was vaguely?
Sure, it was along the lines of finding the closest palindrome of a given integer. The problem has a tricky edge case of integer overflow that you have to solve, which I wasn't able to in the given time.
Two phone interviews and one onsite
What did the problems look like for the phone interviews, or what were they focused on?
String parsing based on rules for phone screen.. if you do good in your phone round I heard direct onsite..that's what recruiter told me.. and if you get onsite.. their CEO will send you mail.. that's kind of unique..😃 Both of my interviewers were really good and helped solve problems.. and do remember to pick up on hints they give.. I did not do it on first round so they had second round for me to only evaluate if I can pick up on hints