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Toma is a startup that builds AI-powered voice agents for automotive dealerships, helping automate phone calls and customer service tasks such as scheduling service appointments. It is known for applying conversational AI to streamline operations in the auto dealership industry.

3 interview notes · updated Jul 2026

Toma·Frontend Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Jul 2026

Interviewed for a frontend role at Toma and got a math-flavored coding problem that I wasn't really expecting. Pretty short technical screen, just the one question as far as I could tell.

Given an array of points in a unit square, write a function that uses the fraction of points falling inside a quarter circle of radius 1 to approximate pi.

“Monte Carlo estimation dressed up as a frontend coding question.”

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Toma·Frontend Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Jun 2026

Interviewed for a frontend role at Toma and got a CSS fundamentals question. Pretty short technical screen, nothing wild.

In CSS, which color function takes red, green, and blue channel values and also supports an optional opacity parameter?

“They're looking for rgba().”

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Toma·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

May 2026

Toma SWE interview with a coding problem centered on building a simple audio mixer class. The problem looked manageable at first but the overlap/overwrite semantics on same-track writes took a bit to think through clearly.

Design and implement an AudioStream class that supports multiple named tracks on a shared timeline. It needs a write(track, data, t) method that places float values starting at time t, where later writes to the same track overwrite earlier ones at overlapping indices. It also needs a read(t1, t2) method that returns the summed output across all tracks for each time in [t1, t2). Walk through your data structure choices and the complexity of each operation.

“My first instinct was a 2D array but that falls apart immediately if the time range is unbounded.”

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