Pinterest·Data Scientist

Pinterest Data Scientist interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

CanadaPosted May 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first real step was a brief HR screening, and then I went into a 60-minute technical interview with a senior data scientist.

That session felt difficult because it combined multiple styles of questions instead of focusing on just one skill area.

I worked through a case study question about metrics analysis, then moved into an SQL question. After that, I had a Python coding question plus an experimentation-related prompt, so the conversation covered both engineering mechanics and how I’d reason about experiments.

What threw me off was how much breadth there was in a single hour—SQL, Python, metrics, and experimentation all in one flow. It didn’t feel easy, and I ended without an offer.

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