Pinterest·Machine Learning Engineer

Pinterest Machine Learning Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

United StatesPosted Jun 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My tech screen was a rapid set of questions: I got three ML-related prompts right away, then two LeetCode medium-style problems.

One of the coding questions was about finding a single element in a sorted array.

The other problem was tied to something like a near-duplicate pipeline. They gave an example mapping from an image ID to a list of near-duplicate image IDs, and I had to form clusters of almost identical images based on that structure—essentially grouping IDs that belong together through the provided relationships.

Even though the screen was only part of the full process, it felt like a quick test of both ML knowledge and careful algorithmic thinking. I didn’t end up with an offer, but the experience felt

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