Pinterest·Software Engineer

Pinterest Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

California City, CAPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process followed a pretty specific order.

I started with an OA, and I didn’t get to the next round unless I cleared a threshold score. After that, my first interview round focused on an easy LeetCode-style problem, but it was treated like a real interview rather than something casual.

The final stage combined a regular SWE-style interview with some behavioral questions, which I remember being framed around using STAR. Overall, it was marked as difficult for me, mostly because passing the OA threshold and then performing across both coding and behavioral evaluation added up to a lot of pressure.

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