Pinterest Data Scientist interview experience (2025)

Pinterest Data Scientist interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Warsaw, MasoviaPosted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My run at Pinterest started with a sequence that included multiple interviews, an online test, then moved into a phone screen plus HR, and then more technical discussions including both ML and coding.

One part that immediately threw me off was that my first coding interview started late—I waited about half an hour because the recruiter didn’t show up when expected.

Once the interview finally got going, the machine learning questions felt very technical, and it was hard to tell whether I was missing nuance in the assumptions or simply being asked for deeper theory than I was prepared for. The overall experience felt difficult and a bit chaotic because of that delayed start.

I didn’t receive an offer. Looking back, the combination of a late first coding interview and the technical depth of

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Pinterest Data Scientist interview experience

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