Pinterest·Software Engineer

Pinterest Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

United StatesPosted Apr 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I came in through a referral and the loop moved fast into a pretty intense technical track.

First was a one-hour technical phone screen with advanced questions, followed by a DS/algorithm-style problem. Then I went onsite with a long sequence: one behavioral round, a system design interview, a coding round, a debugging round, and another DS/algorithm-focused session.

The interviewers were friendly, but the support I needed wasn’t really there. When I struggled with the system design prompt and tried to get clearer direction on what to focus on, the response was more reassuring than instructive—I couldn’t get the guidance I was asking for. It also didn’t feel like a two-way

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