Pinterest·Data Scientist

Pinterest Data Scientist interview experience

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United StatesPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first step was a HackerRank assessment, followed by a brief recruiter call.

After that, I did a final technical interview and then a behavioral interview. The overall structure felt fairly paced, but the technical portion had a distinctive twist.

For the final technical interview, they provided a document, and the discussion was almost word-for-word aligned with what was in it. That made the interview feel less like an open-ended technical conversation and more like working through a prepared prompt in a live setting.

I didn’t get an offer. Still, it was one of those processes where the format was transparent enough that I knew what was being tested once the

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