Pinterest Software Engineer interview experience

The form indicated preferences for certain races and genders, and I remember making a choice purely to increase the odds of getting an interview—writing a race that I wasn’t, and not disclosing being a woman even though the preferences pushed in that direction.

During the screening interview, I admitted that I wasn’t the race I had put on the application. After that, the whole conversation felt more awkward, as if it changed how the interviewer viewed me. I was left feeling unsettled because it seemed like a big company was openly filtering access in a way that I couldn’t reconcile.

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