Pinterest·Machine Learning Engineer

Pinterest Machine Learning Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Sep 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with an initial LeetCode-style round that included a few ML-related questions about LLMs.

After that, the onsite stage had two more LeetCode coding rounds and two systems design interviews.

The experience was rough in a way I hadn’t seen before. Several interviewers felt rushed and disconnected, like they were trying to get through as quickly as possible. One interviewer even had a room that he was getting kicked out of, and he ended the call without proper time for questions or even a proper goodbye.

What hit hardest was how one interviewer behaved during the coding part. I gave what I believed was the right answer, then the interviewer kept pushing with increasingly skeptical

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