Thumbtack interview notes, page 1 of 3

“I went in thinking this would be easy and kind of coasted on surface-level ideas at first.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Thumbtack, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This was essentially six questions wrapped into one.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Thumbtack, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This felt like a warm-up but it wasn't.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Thumbtack, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is the kind of question where you can spiral fast if you don't slow down.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Thumbtack, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The tricky part is calibrating for three different audiences at once.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Thumbtack, Onsite - Cross-functional / Panel round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This was a lot.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Thumbtack, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one wrecked me a little.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Thumbtack, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew the theoretical answer going in (1/3 vs 2/3) so my first instinct was to just print those values and call it done.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Thumbtack, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one took me a minute to untangle.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Thumbtack, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew the O(1) amortized append for lists and O(1) average lookup for dicts, but fumbled a bit on worst-case dict behavior (hash collisions, O(n)).” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Thumbtack, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.