Pinterest·Data Scientist

Pinterest Data Scientist interview experience

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Toronto, ONPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The path I went through was pretty straightforward in structure, but the content felt very targeted to data-science-style problem solving.

I took an OA that mixed multiple-choice questions with LeetCode-style questions focused on machine learning algorithms. After that came a round that started with resume discussion, then shifted into a DS/A technical interview.

In the technical part, I got a graph-style DS/A question that was broken into multiple parts. It was one of those interviews where you can’t just get something working—you have to be careful about the logic across each step, especially when the problem is segmented. By the time I moved through the resume questions and into the graph work, I felt like I was being

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